The Bender-Gestalt test performances of 33 relatively recently hospitalized, male, psychiatric patients were compared with those of 30 long-term psychiatric patients about to be discharged from the hospital. Similarity characterized their raw scores, Z scores, and the number of designs recalled. The efficacy of the Bender-Gestalt as an index of ego strength is discussed in terms of these findings and other variables relative to the sample tested.
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