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Psychosomatic Medicine 25:344-350 (1963)
© 1963 American Psychosomatic Society

Body-Image Boundaries and Histamine Flare Reaction

WILFRED A. CASSELL M.D.1 and SEYMOUR FISHER Ph.D.1

1 State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, Syracuse, N. Y.

The hypothesis was tested that the more definite an individual's body-image boundary concept, the greater will be his skin response to histamine. Boundary definiteness was measured by means of the barrier score, which is based on the attributes assigned to the periphery of percepts elicited by ink-blot stimuli. Histamine response was evaluated in terms of the erythema and spatial extent of the skin flare produced by histamine phosphate (concentration, 1:5 x 106) injected intradermally. One hundred college students (55 male and 45 female) participated as subjects. The results significantly supported the hypothesis in the female group but largely failed to do so in the male group. It was speculated that the barrier score and the histamine flare reaction may both represent different aspects of the individual's readiness to communicate with others.

Submitted on December 3, 1962




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