The descriptive assessment for psychiatric art: A new way of quantifying paintings by psychiatric patients

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 184, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 425-430

  Hacking, Suzanne ^a   Foreman, David ^a   Belcher, John ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRAWING; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ART THERAPY; COLOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PAINTINGS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0029841954     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199607000-00005     Document Type: Article

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