Twenty-one clinical psychologists with from 1 to 25 years of experience judged figure drawings made by epileptics before and after temporal lobectomy and by hospitalized schizophrenics. There was no significant ability to differentiate the pre- from the postoperative drawings, or the schizophrenic from either the pre- or postoperative drawings. There was no significant relationship between the ability to differentiate the drawings and years of experience, nor between this ability and certainty of judgment
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