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Psychosomatic Medicine 16:1-9 (1954)
© 1954 American Psychosomatic Society

Vomiting in Pregnancy

A Psychiatric Study

WILLIAM A. HARVEY M.D.1 and MARY JANE SHERFEY M.D.2

1 Educational Director, The Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2 New York Hospital and the Departments of Psychiatry and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York

Twenty pregnant women, admitted to the hospital for vomiting of pregnancy, were studied by clinical interview method and Rorschach technique.

The life histories of these patients revealed a ready pattern of gastrointestinal disturbance with vomiting in response to emotional stress.

The patients all presented serious disorder of sexual life, with frigidity as its consistent expression.

A remarkable immaturity of personality is common to the entire group, although there is considerable diversity in its psychopathological elaboration.

Pregnancy had occasioned in these women markedly increased anxiety and tension most prominent during the period of their vomiting.

Submitted on June 3, 1952




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