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An attempt was made to replicate Nissenfeld's application to hospitalized female depressed patients of Silverman's (1976) technique of subliminal psychodynamic activation in which a significant effect on statelike psyehopathology symptomatic of depression was found for the "symbiotic" stimulus. The present study administered to a single group of hospitalized female depressed patients (N = 30) three subliminal stimuli: a control stimulus (PEOPLE TALKING), the symbiotic stimulus (MOMMY AND i ARE ONE), and a rapprochement stimulus (MOMMY LOVES ME AS i AM). Dependent variables were anxious and depressed affect as measured by the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAACL), depressed and hypomanic themes rated from the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), the Digit Symbol subscale from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), Rosenberg's (1965) Self-Esteem Scale, and Silverman's measure of pathological nonverbal behavior. Multivariate analysis of variance found no significant multivariate or univariate effects for any of the independent variables either taking the group as a whole or (dividing the group by level of depression or by Silverman's measure of differentiation. The investigators are unable to account for this failure to rep-Kcate either by inadequate power of statistical tests or by deficient methodology.

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