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Psychosomatic Medicine 29:103-110 (1967)
© 1967 American Psychosomatic Society

Body Image, Anxiety, and Tolerance for Experimental Pain

DAVID C. NICHOLS PH.D.1 and BERNARD TURSKY 2

1 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; South Shore Mental Health Center, Quincy, Mass.
2 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Tolerance for pain resulting from a controlled electric shock to the forearm was studied in relation to body image and anxiety. A significant positive correlation was found between pain tolerance and definiteness of body boundaries. A significant negative correlation was found between Holtzman's modification of the Elizur Rorschach Content Scale and pain tolerance. However, pain tolerance was not correlated with a more focused measure of body anxiety.

Submitted on February 4, 1966




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