Sweet sorrow: the color-shading response in an adult cystic fibrosis population.
Research on the color-shading response on the Rorschach has been limited previously to its use as a predictor of suicide. The theoretical understanding of this response was addressed by some of the major Rorschach authors. Adult cystic fibrosis patients were administered a battery of psychological tests, including the Rorschach. While these patients face a premature death, none of these patients were suicidal. A higher than usual incidence of color-shading responses occurred. Rapaport's hypothesis that the color-shading response is an expression of a simultaneously conflicting emotion, or similar to "sweet sorrow," was suggested as a possible hypothesis.
D000328:Adult; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D012392:Rorschach Test; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology