抄録
The personality, psychological state, and trigger factors of occurrence of thirty-seven patients with self halitosis were investigated by psychological tests and detailed interview. The results were as follows:
1) By the analysis of the patients' personality, twenty-seven (64%) patients were classified in the category of psychosomatic disorder, and the rest in neurosis.
2) The number of female patients in the areas III and IV of the CMI test is larger than that of the male patients. The Y-G test revealed that there were more female patients in the maladjustmentgroup than male patients. In MAS test, the patients with neurosis got more points in the anxiety scale than those with psychosomatic disorder.
3) In most cases, the precipitating factor of the disease was found to be a stressor of situational genesis, i. e. anthroscene. The mechanism of outbreak is speculated to be responded conditioning, and the symptoms were maintained by operant mechanism.
4) The above data indicated that self-halitosis had indication for behavioral therapy. In fact, all cases could overcome self-halitosis by taking behavioral therapy.
