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.

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Three hundred and seventy-four thirty-minute television segments were observed in an investigation of televised portrayals of disability. These segments were randomly distributed across three time blocks and the three major networks. The presence/absence of disability was recorded using a twenty-second partial interval recording procedure. The definition of disability was restricted to the observation of an orthosis or prosthesis for support, protection, mobility, and/or spinal stability. Observations of disability were further evaluated to provide information regarding the focus of the presentation (i.e., irrelevant to plot, relevant to plot, or thematic) and the affective valence of the presentation (i.e., positive, neutral, or negative).Disability content occurred in less than 1 % of approximately 23,000 intervals observed. Most presentations of disability were irrelevant to plot and neutral in affective valence. Although certain variables, such as network and time of day, appear to be statistically related to the occurrence of disability, the extremely low frequency of disability-related presentations suggests that no single variable is meaningfully related to the presence of disability on television.Efforts to evaluate the presentation of disability on television have been flawed methodologically, making their interpretation difficult. For example, several studies have investigated disability on television based exclusively on program descriptions which appeared in 71K Guide (