H:
• Homoerotic conflict: hands extended behind back in "private" area.
• Homoerotic tendency: high heels on male, male subject.
• Homosexuality: eyes and lashes large.
• Homosexuality/sexual identification conflict/strong attachment to or dependency upon parent of opposite sex: drawing opposite sex first.
• Hostility: jagged lines.
• Hostility toward women, expressed overtly: witches.
• Hysteric tendency: fading lines in formation of body.
• Hysterical/problem in control of anger or of primitive drives/schizoid tendency: long neck.

I:
• Identification with parent of same sex: older figure than subject.
• Immaturity/lack of impulse control/regression: omission of neck.
• Immaturity/masturbatory fixation: yo-yo.
• Impotence/virility wish: long nose.
• Impotency/involutional resistance to sexual decline/virility striving: cane.
• Improved prognosis for successful treatment of obesity: obese subject who draws slim figure.
• Impulsive behavior: short strokes.
• Impulsive/unstable: fluctuating pressure.
• Inadequacy with compensatory fantasy: overemphasized features.
• Inadequate virility: sparse, unpressured hair.
• Indecision/self-dissatisfaction: excessive erasures.
• Infantile or repressed sex drives, sensuality or sensual needs: hair emphasis.
• Infantile social behavior: childlike features.
• Inhibition/lack of drive: figures seated.
• Inhibition/repression: long, thin neck.
• Insecurity: ground line, facial expression placating.
• Introversion/isolation: right-to-left strokes.
• Involutional impotency: foot of male emphasized.
• Involutional melancholia/sexual impotency: large nose.

J:
• Judgment (poor): head and legs, profile, full-faced trunk.

L:
• Lack of achievement: thin, weak arms.
• Lack of ambition: short arms.
• Lack of closeness in family situation: figures far apart when drawing family, compartmentalization.
• Lack of confidence in productivity or social contact: dim hands; apologetic of drawing.

M:
• Manic-schizophrenic/somatic delusions: organs shown (internal anatomy).
• Masculine assertion or need for it: strong nose.
• Masculine striving/sexual inadequacy: tie.
• Masculine striving/sexual role confusion: Adam’s apple.
• Masculine tendency: angular or squared trunk.
• Masturbation guilt: finger omitted or over-extended.
• Maternal dependence/somatic pre-occupation: button in midline.
• Maternal figure: skirt ankle length on female (male subject). Maternal figure regarded as rejecting, unloving, and unsupportive: hands omitted on female figure.
• Maternal figure unnurturing: small chest.
• Maternal (protective) figure wished for: long arms; hands; prominent female figure (male subject).
• Mental retardation: confusion of full face and profile (profile of forehead and nose, full face, eyes and mouth).

N:
• Narcissism/possible homosexual tendency: hair given much attention.
• Need for affection/nurturing warmth: sun added when asked to draw person.
• Need for autonomy: long and powerful arms and long legs.
• Need for defensive intellectual control: neck emphasis.
• Need for emotional security and warmth: fireplace (alight) before figure.
• Need for greater status and recognition than subject feels he possesses: uniform of cowboy or soldier on male figure of male subject.
• Need for support or help: fence to lean on, ground line.