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Citation

Lester D. Percept. Mot. Skills 2002; 95(3): 1006.

Affiliation

Psychology Program, Richard Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ 08240.

Comment On:

Percept ;.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.2466/pms.2002.95.3.1006

PMID

12509209

Abstract

Lester (1989) reported that Sylvia Plath, a poet who committed suicide, used words dark, black, and night more often in the poems written immediately prior to her suicide than in an earlier period, as predicted by Piotrowski's (1974) method of interpreting Rorschach responses in which "dark shading" indicates a propensity to act-out.

An analysis was made of the entries in the diary of a 20-year-old woman who kept a diary for one year prior to her death by suicide (Lester, 2003). The dark-shading words declined over time in her diary, a result opposite to that predicted.


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