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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