Resource Tag: UNITED STATES. KANSAS

Developed a color-shading technique to study the previously demonstrated relationship between Rorschach Test color-shading responses & suicide attempts. Of 17 matched pairs of hospitalized psychiatric patients (age range 19-47 yrs), those who had attempted suicide gave significantly more shading responses to chromatic cards than those who had no history of suicide attempts. Results suggest that […]

An attempt was made to evaluate the hypothesis that intropunitiveness is the fundamental dynamic underlying the self-destructive behavior of suicidal adolescents. Suicidal, psychiatrically disturbed but not suicidal and normal adolescents were administered the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Test. Their protocols were scored for intropunitiveness. No significant differences in intropunitive scores were found among the 3 groups. It […]

The theoretical relationship between suicide & personality organization was explored by finding an autokinetic index – the amount of apparent movement of a stationary light – for suicidal & other subjects at 3 hospitals. Findings generally support the notion that an ego-close personality, characterized by concentration on external stimuli (&, therefore, a lower autokinetic index) […]