In all four groups of 97 gravely psychosomatic patients the scores of the anatomical Rorschach responses are higher than the reference value, the responses being mostly of the bony/skeletal type. At responses can give information of issues related to the body self and disorders in body image, self-awareness, self-concept, or individual identity.
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