Abstract
Family Drawing Test (FDT) was performed with children for the assessment of cognition of family relation. In this study three children with psychomatic disorder were tested in the following manner: patients were given drawing papers, black and color pencils and instructed to draw their family as they please. Each patient was retested twice or three times at intervals of three months or more. Case 1: A boy aged ten, who had recurrent headaches, drew a picture showing himself watching TV alone. Post drawing interview revealed that his mother was extremely strict to him. FDT indicated the psycological problem that he could not satisfy the need for affection. Case 2: thirteen-years-old boy suffered from morning nausea and lassitude. He didn't include his mother in the family drawing. In this case FDT showed he didn't feel his mother's affection. Case 3: A girl aged ten who had recurrent abdominal pain after she had already recovered from acute pancreatitis. In FDT she drew herself comparably miniscule. The overall impression implied the immaturity of the patient's character development. In each case a series of appropriate counselling to patients and their parents were arranged. After enviromental manipulation, second or third FDT was retaken. Patients showed gradual clinical improvement accompanied with dissappearing of distortion signs in family relations which were observed in the first FDT.
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