Date of Award

Summer 8-2005

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

EVMS School of Health Professions

Program/Concentration

Art Therapy

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify graphic indicators of Bipolar Disorder in Favorite Weather Drawings. The subjects in this study consisted of 9 individuals diagnosed with a Bipolar Disorder and 16 individuals without a Bipolar Disorder diagnosis. The age range was 22 to 64 years. It was hypothesized that Favorite Weather Drawings rendered by individuals diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder would differ in color, expansiveness, line quality, and weather themes from Favorite Weather Drawings rendered by individuals without a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder. These differences were measured using a Favorite Weather Drawing Checklist and analyzed for resulting patterns.

This study supported the hypothesis and more specifically found that individuals with Bipolar Disorder were more inclined to include inclement weather (such as rain, lightning, and snow) with a higher intensity of the weather as well as dual weather, inclusion of a house, a happy / sad face, bizarre arrangement of content, a sloping landscape or no landscape, unmixed color that is dense, unconventional, imaginative, and bizarre, a thicker line quality, and a use of space that was expansive across the page. Individuals with Bipolar Disorder were also less likely to include human figures, animals, action objects, beach landscapes, color, and multiple materials in their Favorite Weather Drawings than individuals without a Bipolar Disorder.

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DOI

10.25777/k14y-5p48

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