Year: 1984 Source: Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v.14, no.1, (Spring 1984), p.3-16 SIEC No: 19842540

Guided by the hypothesis that imagining actions is a way of rehearsing actions in the service of effective adaptations to reality, various characteristics of imagined motion, assessed by the Rorschach Test, were compared in hospitalized suicidal & nonsuicidal preadolescents & adolescents, & in public school children. A number of differences were found for example, suicidal children imagined less vigorous motion than distinguished suicidal & nonsuicidal children.