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Employment of the Rorschach Inkblot Test with the Devries Suicide Inventory (open access)

Employment of the Rorschach Inkblot Test with the Devries Suicide Inventory

This investigation represents an attempt to employ the Devries Suicide Prediction Scale and the Rorschach Inkblot Test in a two-stage predictive model which was designed to decrease the high false positive rate associated with the Devries and to design a way in which the Rorschach could be used efficiently in suicide prediction in a large mental hospital setting. The Rorschach was not found to significantly improve the predictive ability of the Devries. An unexpectedly high percentage of mental patients in the study, thirty-eight percent, admitted to previous suicide attempts, raising the question of whether suicidal behavior is not more common than is usually thought.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Gordon, James L.
System: The UNT Digital Library