
| In the workaday world -- at least until I retired a little while ago -- I am not an artist, but a clinical psychologist, who for the last twenty, or so, years has specialized in forensic psychology. I have done intensive psychological evaluations of well over a thousand people charged with criminal offenses of every kind and testified in court as an expert witness on countless occasions. Additionally, I have always seen people who are not behind bars, at least literally, for more routine psychological counseling and psychotherapy. In the course of these involvements, I have learned a little about the dynamics of human personality. I thought it would be interesting to try to combine these insights with my developing interest in computer graphics, and, to this end, I did the following series of images. Each is meant to depict one of the main mental disorders or, in their lesser manifestations, personality types. I have attached a little explanatory text to each image, briefly describing the kind of problem being depicted and how the image is intended to symbolize it. |