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

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etween different groups <strong>of</strong> patients.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Main <strong>Study</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> main study reported a validation experiment with 109 subjects, in which there were<br />

no specific instructions to patients and where there would be no interference with the<br />

therapeutic milieu. It was hypothesised there would be significant difference between<br />

two or more diagnostic categories <strong>of</strong> patients or controls on each <strong>of</strong> the 12 remaining<br />

subscales after 3 infrequent colours were removed: colour (1-6) - red, yellow, green, blue,<br />

brown, black; intensity (7); line (8-9) - painted and drawn; space (10), emotional tone<br />

(11) and form (12).<br />

Paintings were collected from controls and hospitalised adult patients mid-<br />

treatment. Patients fit the ICD10 categories for: schizophrenia, major depression,<br />

substance abuse, personality disorder.<br />

Results: Analysis <strong>of</strong> variance showed significant difference between two or more groups<br />

on ten subscales from 12. <strong>The</strong> Duncan pairwise post-hoc comparison showed differences<br />

in patient/control pictures and between patient groups.<br />

Patients were significantly different from controls on:<br />

Schizophrenics on 6 variables: yellow, green, black, intensity, emotional tone and<br />

form.<br />

Depressives on 3 variables: space, emotional tone and form.<br />

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