A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CHILD’S PLACE IN LOUIS CORMAN’S FAMILY DRAWING TEST

Authors: Faithful Mbendi, Marcel Otita & Anicet Tibamwenda

ABSTRACT

This article highlights the place of the child in his or her family, by deploying a comparative approach between two social groups; on the one hand, children and adolescents in family break-up and on the other hand, those living in a family (n =120). We opted for a projective method of graphism which aims at soliciting a double psychic work of perception and projection. Corman’s family drawing test was presented to children and teenagers from two groups mentioned above. The analysis of our survey focused on three indices of symbolization of the place of the child in the family space: close to the family, absent in the family and away from the family. From the comparative reading of these indices, the symbol “absent” is manifested in the family drawing especially in children and adolescents in family breakdown. While among children and adolescents living in families, the symbol index “close to the family” characterizes more this category of subjects. Two clues “out of the way” and “close to the family” mark the similarity of the symbolic expressions for these two samples.

Keywords: family, family drawing, street child, united families, child’s place.

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