SUPER-EGO AND AGGRESSION IN CIRCUMSCRIBED NEURODERMATITIS

[摘要] The purpose of this investigation was to test the hypotheses that patients with circumscribed neurodermatitis (1) have strict, punitive super-egoes, and (2) tend to express aggressiveness masochistically. 35 patients with circumscribed neurodermatitis and a control group of 29 patients with presumably non-psychogenic dermatologic diseases were given the Rosenzweig picture-frustration test. Quantitative scores for intensity of super-ego and degree of masochism were detd. by blind scoring of the tests. The results supported the hypothesis that patients with circumscribed neurodermatitis have punitive super-egoes and partially supported the hypothesis that these patients tend to express aggressiveness masochistically.