With 66 boys, aged 3 yr. to 17 yr. who were referred for potential gender-identity disorder, this study examined intrapsychic manifestations as reflected in their projections to the Draw-A-Person Test, the Brown IT Scale for Children, and the Shneidman Make-A-Picture Story Test. Without access to these projective test findings, an independent clinical psychologist provided a diagnostic rating on the severity of gender disturbance on a five-point diagnostic rating scale, based on clinical interviews of the child and his parents and a systematic behavioral assessment based on previously published normative standardization data. For each of the three projective measures, significant correlations were found between the clinician ratings on severity of gender disturbance and the test findings in the feminine direction (D-A-P, r = .44; IT Scale, r = .64; M-A-P-S, r = .35). These results validated the use of intrapsychic phenomena of fantasy and self-perception as measured by these projective tests for the diagnosis of gender disturbance in male children and adolescents.
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