This paper is a further contribution to the thesis that children's art productions are pertinent material for psychiatric diagnosis and therapy. Emphasis is placed on the fact that while the child is in this case introduced to art as a medium of expression by a worker whose task is auxiliary to that of the psychiatrist, this work is quite distinct from ordinary occupational therapy in that it develops form and direction, and is the principal means by which the patient comes to grips with his problems and strives towards a solution.

This particular patient during weekly sessions, each of which lasted an hour, was encouraged to create spontaneously with any of the available art materials, including crayons, paints and plasticine. He seems to have accepted the opportunity avidly, and during five and a half months of work progressed from rather chaotic productions about jungle wars, sea fights and air battles to rather clearcut symbolic projections of his specific problems as they were