Interpretative Hypothesis on Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test Unusual Treatment of Gestalten A.

Angulations Changes Suggest: Organic conditions in adults and children Mental retardation Inability to complete a task, hesitancy, self doubt and anxiety. difficulty in emotional control Feelings of insecurity and conflict. B. Closure Difficulty Suggested Emotionally disturbed, neurotic conditions in children and adults. Interpersonal relationships are difficult; perhaps fear inducing in adults and children. Anxiety , hesitancy, self doubt and inability to complete a task Possible hypomania.

 Aggressive acting out a behavior. C. Circles Modified Circles changes to dashes, by children suggest and emotional disturbance. Circles with dots place in them suggest masochistic tendencies. Uneven in sizes suggests poor psychological control. In children, dots substituted for circles have been associated with reading difficulty. D. Curvature Modified in Circles Suggests: Neurotic conditions with poor emotional control or impulsiveness. Possible organicity, especially if angles are introduced. Possible mental deficiency. Possible delinquency in adolescents. In children, immaturity, confusion, regression, learning and emotional disturbances.

E.

Curvature Exaggerated Suggests: Emotional conflicts with neurotic defenses.

F. Curvature Flattened suggests: Overly hostile patients. Low frustrations tolerance. Depressed conditions. G. Displacement Suggests: Schizophrenic conditions. Possible organic conditions. Traumatic Psychosis. H. Dots Modified: 1. Dots changed to circles suggests Regression in any one over age7. Emotional Instability Possible Organicity

 Possible Psycopathy 2. Dots changes to dashes suggests: Possible Organicity In children, possible emotional problems I. Fragmentation suggest Organic conditions. Psychotic conditions in adults and children. Possible mental deficiency. Children with reading difficulties. J. Lines changed to Dots suggests Schizophrenia K. Numbering and Boxing-Off Figures suggests

Neurotic conditions, usually obsessive-compulsive with rigidity and meticulousness.

Possible paranoid tendencies.

 In children boxing suggests insecurity, anxiety and a tendency to withdraw or act out. L. Overlapping and Crossing Difficulties: Emotional disturbances. Mental deficiency or organicity. Aggressive persons with acting out potentials.
M.

Regression including, simplificatation , primitivation and condensation suggests: Severe personality disturbances with regressed conditions including schizophrenia. Immature mental and emotional development. Organicity Low frustration tolerance, negativism and overt examination hostility.

N. Rotation suggests: Organic and Psychotic conditions.

 Marked elated, manic or depressed moods. Antagonism and opposition especially if rotation is counter clockwise.

O.

Sloping deviations: Upward sloping suggests elated mood. Downward slopping suggests depressed mood.

P.

Spontaneous Elaborations, embellishments and doodling suggests: Psychotic conditions particularly manic- depressive. Organic and dementia conditions. Excessive preoccupation with needs.

Q. Tremors and Motors In coordination Suggests: Neurotic conditions. Alcoholics

 Organic Conditions Elderly Individuals Mental retardation in Individuals R. Turning Design or cards emotional Instability Acting out and negativistic tendencies Possible schizophrenia S. Workover Excessive Suggests: Suspicious individuals. Neurotic, anxiety conditions In children, learning difficulties, mental retardation and schizophrenic conditions Modification in Size: A. Expansion in Size suggests: Possible manic depressive.

 Possible psychopathy emotional control in adults and children. Reaction-formation to marked feelings of anxiety, inadequacy or impotence. In children, reading difficulties and emotional problems. B. Sequential expansion in Size suggests: Low frustration tolerance. neurotic conditions Introverted personalities. C. Reduce in Size suggests: Withdrawal tendencies in children and adults. Inhibited, constricted personality. Feelings of inadequacy, insecurity and impotency. D. Sequential reduction of size suggested: Low frustration tolerance with acting out tendencies.

 By children, internalizing of anxiety, sometimes with somatic complaints. E. Marked inconsistency in Modified Sizes suggested: Fluctuating ego control. Ambivalent individuals. Children with low frustration tolerance, over responsive to environmental stimulation. TYPES OF ARRANGEMENT OF THE REPRODUCTION A. Rigidly methodical arrangements suggests: Maladjusting adults and children. Alcoholism Neurotic with compulsive defenses. Rigid pattern of retarded children. B. Logical Orderly arrangement suggests: Normal, average children and adults.

 Logical approach to everyday problems, adequate judgment and planning activity. C. Irregular arrangement suggests: Manic- depressive conditions. Inadequate and withdrawn paranoid. Placement of the edges of paper by adults suggests needs for support from the environment.
D.

Confused and Chaotic arrangements suggests: Intense and overwhelming anxiety. Manic conditions Mental retardation Possible organic Impairment.

E.

Crowded, compressed or cohesive arrangement suggests: Neurotic conditions, lack of sensitivity to others, insecure, abrupt, hostile tendencies. Lethargic dull conditions.

 Psychotic conditions, both organic and schizophrenic. Learning difficulties in children.

Paranoids, hostile, reactive, perhaps withdrawn and inadequate if compression is extreme.

F. Collision arrangement suggests: Organic, brain damaged conditions. Low ego strength, poor current planning activity. Impulsive, aggressive, acting out of tendencies. Disturbed or deteriorating psychotic conditions. G. Scattered expansive arrangement suggests: Aggressive, rebellious, hostile acting out of tendencies in children and adults. Psycopathy, due to lack of inhibitory trends Neurotic conditions.