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This article focuses on the stimulus factor psychiatric patients in Bender-Gestalt test rotations (BG). Hospitalized psychiatric patients were individually ad ministered the BG with varying orientational clues as follows: first, 40 newly admitted patients sat at a bare desk in a relatively bare room with the BG design cards always placed parallel to the tops of their sheets of paper, second, 37 patients due to be discharged within a week took the test, third, 33 patients varying in psychiatric diagnosis but all manifesting alcoholism drew the designs on horizontally oriented graph paper held in a fixed position relative to the BG cards in an apparatus in which the cards were framed and presented in an upright position.