104 psychiatric patients defined as depressed on the MMPI did not draw significantly smaller human figures than non-depressed Ss. There was no significant correlation between amount of depression and height of figure drawing for depressed patients, nor was there a significant correlation between reaction time and height of figure drawing for depressed patients.
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