Being well aware of this fact, psychologists have incorporated several drawing tests, including the HTP test (House-Tree-Person), into their clinical practice to learn more about their patients.

It is called draw a house-tree- person (Buck, 1984). It is the projective House-Tree-Person test in which children are asked to draw these three items. The house mirrors the child’s home life ...

Learn what people can figure out (or think they can figure out) from your drawing of a tree. I first heard of the House-Tree-Person, or HTP, test when I was reading The Silence of the Lambs.