Theoretical-epistemological convergences of the free drawing, person in the rain and kinetic family tests

This paper articulates the theoretical and epistemological premises of the Free Drawing, Person in the Rain and Kinesthetic Family projective tests. It first introduces a neuro-cognitive and developmental perspective on the use of drawings as research methods, then a psychodynamic perspective on their use as empirical and clinical methods in investigations of the unconscious and psychic functioning. The articulation identifies a common trunk that substantiates the theoretical-epistemological and methodological presuppositions of these tests as the structuralist and dualist matrix, based on the topics of Freudian psychoanalysis and the conception of the defences conceived by the Ego psychology approach.