Thanks to the HTP test you can analyze certain personality traits, which are the conflicting areas within us, our feelings and the projection of ourselves.
This personality test may seem like a ‘children’s game’, but it also helps adults. These are tests that are applied in psychological clinics and schools.
- To perform this test.
- We asked subjects to draw a house.
- Tree.
- And person on a blank piece of paper.
- So the acronyms are: HTP.
- Ie House.
- Tree.
- ” and Person.
- This test aims to show which conflicts are the most common and.
- At the same time.
- The most “hidden” in us.
In addition, thanks to the drawings of these simple everyday objects, we can analyze the elements of the person’s personality, even if we do not realize, when designing a house, a tree and a person, we evoke elements that are stored in our unconscious. for a number of reasons.
You don’t have to be a Picasso or a Dala to pass the test, but to find the keys offered by the design What can we communicate through this?In particular, it serves to express the ‘I’ in relation to the family environment (such as a house or tree) and people nearby.
The study goes beyond the design of a house, a tree and a close person, so it cannot be analyzed superficially, first of all we ask the analyzer to draw a picture of these three elements as naturally as possible, forgetting the context in which he finds himself and the subsequent analysis of his drawing.
As the person draws, the analyst evaluates his attitudes, words, how he acts and everything he demonstrates, it can be frustration, anger, joy, etc. Once the drawing is finished, the second phase begins: telling a story using the three main times (past, present, and future).
Another option also widely used in HTP is to answer a number of questions previously posed by the specialist, which serves to motivate people who have difficulty expressing themselves or children who do not yet have the ability to develop a story.
This test was designed for people from the age of eight and there is no maximum limit to perform it, this means that anyone can draw a house, a tree and a person and then be analyzed, perhaps for an adult it seems a little strange to have a consultation with the analyst and ask them to draw in the middle of the session, but the results are very interesting.
To make the most of this test, it is necessary to be in a quiet and distraction-free place where the patient feels comfortable, the office is ideal because it provides privacy and the analyst provides all the necessary equipment: paper, pencil and rubber.
You can draw and erase everything, erase only part, redo, but this will also be analyzed.
The test lasts between thirty minutes and an hour, depending on how long it takes the patient to draw and tell their story, it also depends on their willingness to talk about their life and the analyst’s decision to ask more questions in the end.
The logic is simple, the proof is based on the conviction that through drawing we can express our feelings, whether past, present and future desires, each image has a different meaning: the house projects the family situation of the present, the tree is the deepest concept of ourselves and of the person is a kind of self-portrait or self-image that includes our consciousness and our defense mechanisms.
The location of each object on the sheet is also analyzed. For example, if you draw very close to the upper limb, the drawing is related to dreams and imagination, and even material; on the right is linked to the future, to the center to the present and the left to the past.
It evaluates the size of each element, the line (which can be strong or small) and the clarity, it is very interesting to understand that each part of the house, the tree and the person have meaning.
We’re not going to tell you all the meanings so you can’t cheat if you decide to do this test, but we’ll give you a brief summary of an interpretation: the roof of the house represents the spiritual and intellectual part, the trunk of the tree. it’s your support, the support of life and the hands represent the emotional plane.
In this test, as in all projective tests, the quality of the information will depend on the attitude of the person analyzed, their willingness to draw and tell their story, on the other hand, also depends on the analyst’s ability to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant elements.