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Psychosomatic Medicine 19:120-126 (1957)
© 1957 American Psychosomatic Society

Rorschach Correlates in Parkinson's Disease

M, Motor Inhibition, Perceived Cause of Illness, and Self-Attitudes

LEONARD DILLER Ph.D.1 and MANUEL RIKLAN Ph.D.1

1 Psychiatric Services of the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center and the Department of Neurological Surgery, St. Barnabas Hospital, New York, N. Y.

Forty-two Parkinson patients were divided into a high- and low-M group on the basis of Rorschachs administered prior to neurosurgery. The groups did not differ significantly on degree of motor inhibition. However, the high-M group gave more psychological rather than impersonal causes of illness, as well as significantly more negative self-statements. The reasons for the lack of relationship with motor inhibition are discussed in terms of attitudinal and physiological factors. Some implications of the other findings are presented.

Submitted on April 19, 1956






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