Pictorial Representation as Pointers to Suicidal Fantasies in School-Children: A Documentation of Pupils’s Work

This paper describes an experiment with school children to test the hypothesis that suicidal fantasies, in many & various forms, may be envisioned & represented repeatedly by children considered normal & well adjusted. Fifth grade children were asked to draw pictures illustrating the past & present of a boy figure, as well as pictoral representation of a story in which the problem is “solved” by suicide.(NBB)