Next patient was directed to draw a picture showing each member of his family. Also he was directed to describe each family member while executing the drawing. The attached sheet shows the drawings he made of his father, mother, sister (Ruth) and lastly himself. Interestingly, he drew his sister and himself to a smaller scale than his parents, explaining that this is the way they really are -- smaller in size, estimating his sister to be about 10 years of age and himself 8 or 9 years of age. When examiner first saw patient for Wechsler-Bellvue examination, 9-17-48, he stated that his age was 9, that he was still in school and that the only work he had ever done was that of selling newspapers. Further evidence of regression is provided by his statements concerning what he considered [page 2] his best good points or habits and conversely his worst habits.
Immediately following is a verbatim recording of his descriptive remarks about his family members while he was sketching them on paper. Lastly is a listing of what he considers to be his best good points or habits and as well his most objectionable bad points or habits.
"My dad has a hooked nose--you know Buck Jones?--my dad looks just like him, just like him--my dad is kind of Oh! kind of dark like a Mexican, black hair, has black eyes that get yellow spots in them when he gets mad. He likes to play with guns and when he is drunk he is in good humor--he is real strong. He is brave. Doesn't seem to care for many people around him, smokes cigarettes, sometimes a cigar--really friendly with people, but if he gets mad will just say anything to anybody."
"Now I will draw my mother. She was--have you ever seen hair that was in the sun looks that color there (pointing to golden paint on picture) but in shadow like this (dark brown box)? She has blue eyes. I used to compare her with other women and Oh! she was lovely. Only thing she didn't act on the street or in public like she did at home. I didn't like that in her. But she was clean, that's where she would make my dad take his bath--make him get in there--he didn't like it but she would make him--we wouldn't set down to table unless he would take his bath. She had a lot of friends--had friends around her. She threw dad's gun away one time too. He scared Ruth and my sister with it. They didn't talk for a week, but she said she would never let him have a gun if he was going to do that--threw it down the creek. She liked beads--but she wasn't a good cook. (Laughing) She wasn't a good cook. (Much laughing) Dad caught a possum one time--she almost ran us all out of the house cooking it--Grandmother was there when she cook that possum--when she put it on the table none of us could eat it--we all left the table. (Much laughter) Oh! that thing was awful--Is there a cheese that smells strong? I remember she said this possum will smell something like this cheese. It will taste good-(laughing) Oh! you should have been there--My grandmother never did get over it--but she never cooked any more possum. But dad laughed all that day."
"Now I will draw my sister. The people say she looks like me. She has my eye and my hair. She is quiet. I think she is older than I am. Now she can side a horse. She puts a horse up to a fence, climbs upon the fence, gets on top of post and gets in the saddle like that. She likes to go barefooted."
Q. "How old is she?"
A. "Oh! I don't know."
Q. "Guess!"
A. "Well, 10."[page3]
Q. "How old are you now?"
A. "Will a guess do?"
Q. "Yes."
A. "Oh! 8 or 9."
Q. "Draw yourself there too to have it complete."
A. "I used to fix dad's shot gun shells--I used to take the ends out of it--pour out those shot and put them in a cup of hot lard--bring them together and put them back in there--he told me the lard holds all of the shot together. He used to do that all the time--have me empty those shot out, put them in lard and put them together. He said only a fool would shoot some kind of shotgun--one kind of is straight all the way down inside the barrow from one end to another and the other kind pinches, comes to a--oh! I don't know--but he said only a fool shoots those that come to a hole in the end--but he said when you lard those shot the shot will stay together better than any other kind of shot.
Q. "What do you think your best good points are? your good habits?"
A. "Will have to tell what mama says?"
Q. "No, what you think."
A.
Q. "What are your worst habits?"
A. "Well, I play in the crick when I'm told not to.
Q. "that was when you were a child, but now."
A. "Well, that's One--Oh! yes, Now. 2. Climbing in the stalls and playing with the studs.
Q. "How?"
A. "Pet them--dad says not to because they are mean--I give them carrots and feed them--don't climb down at their feet--In feed box. 3. I chase chickens, not very often."