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R S Milden

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PubMed1988

Single-sign Rorschach suicide indicators: a validity study using a depressed inpatient population.

This study attempted to test the validity of using single responses on the Rorschach as indicators of current suicidal risk. Forty-one depressed inpatients were administered the Rorschach along with a concurrent measure of depression and suicidality. Appelbaum and Holzman's (1962) color-shading sign was found to be related to low suicidal risk, whereas Blatt and Ritzler's (1974) transparency sign was found to be unrelated to current suicidal risk, but still related to a past history of suicide attempts. Patients who saw these signs while depressed were also likely to see them when recovered, suggesting that the signs may indicate a "suicidal personality" who may or may not be in any immediate danger of committing suicide.

Adult↗
PubMed1985

Stressful life events associated with endogenous depression.

This study addresses the longstanding clinical impression that episodes of endogenous depression have less relationship to environmental stress than episodes of nonendogenous depression. Stress levels of 100 Research Diagnostic Criteria-assessed psychiatric inpatients are retrospectively assessed for the period immediately before episode onset and for an earlier, baseline period. Although pre-episode stress levels are higher in nonendogenous depressed patients than in endogenous depressed patients or psychiatric controls, this difference is due to a higher baseline level in the nonendogenous group. Compared longitudinally, all three groups show an equivalent increase in stressful events from the baseline to pre-episode period.

Adolescent↗