Mortensen...uses drawings of the human figure as a means to assess the
psychological and intellectual development of children...relating the
different aspects of figure drawing to different theoretical frames of
reference, which include developmental psychology as well as the
Kleinian theory of psychosexual development.
--British Journal of Psychiatry
This work details sex differences in children's drawings and shows how
they display a coherent and meaningful pattern, indicative of a
fundamental and basic psychosexual identity and not merely of
socialization and education. Mortenson also reveals how human figure
drawings reflect the drawer's visual impression of others, and the
subjective experience of being human.