The psychopathology of everyday art: a quantitative Study - World ...

diagnosis and therapy with psychiatric groups, which probably represents the common
knowledge of the field. Amos gives the qualification that hypotheses are of little
consequence without corroboration from other factors so there is very little emphasis on
this speculation where differences are not obvious.
Table 2: Interpretations of the use of colour in artistic productions: from S.P. Amos.
Colour Interpretation
Red
Yellow
Orange
Blue
Green
Violetred
Purple
Black
White
Self, ego development, active relation to reality, physicalemotional
balance.
Inner emotionalism, frustration, threat to ego, identity with violent
inner forces.
Aggressive resistance to dependency.
Aloofness, lack of emotionality, spirituality, overtly controlled,
emotional blocking.
Suffering, resisting emotion, positive, dogmatic, insecure.
The psycho-sexual self, lack of proper sexual identification,
troubled by sexual drives, emotionalism tied to sexual
frustrations.
Passivity, uninvolved, tendency to depression, may represent
paranoid tendencies.
Absence of extrinsic emotion, hostility, bound, denying,
aggressive, fearful.
Negation of both physical and emotional being, passivity,
receptiveness, spiritualness.
of interpretation and art therapy (Vol.2) New York: Karger, tabulated by in S.P. Amos, (1982) op.cit.
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