This paper of Naumberg's considers a series of abstract chalk drawings made by a fifteen-year-old girl with conversion hysteria, who had developed an amnesia after her father had slapped her because she had had a date with a boy. At the mental hospital she was hypnotized and treated by psychotherapy. No attempt at psychoanalysis was made. It was then suggested to her that she use drawing as a means of expression. In these drawings she expressed emotions by colors, as, for example, anger and rage through red, depression through black, and happiness through yellow, so that she developed a consistent color language of her own. The subject matter of her drawings