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Thirty-six depressive subjects were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups. Group 1 subjects received 60 subliminal presentations of a slide of two figures and the words MOMMY AND I ARE ONE for male subjects and DADDY AND I ARE ONE for female subjects. Group 2 subjects received 60 subliminal slide presentations of a single figure with the words PEOPLE ARE WALKING. Group 3 subjects did not receive a slide. A pretest and posttest Beck Depression Inventory was administered to assess depression increase or decrease. The “subliminal” therapy was carried out over four different sessions. The data show that Group 1 subjects significantly reduced depression scores from pretest to posttest, whereas the subjects in Groups 2 and 3 did not reduce depression scores. Discussion is centered on comparisons of the data with past findings.