Abstract
This study examined the somatization in psychosomatic disease by the Rorschach technique. The Rorschach test was administered to the psychosomatic, the neurotic, and the psychosomatic with mental complaints. Subjects were further classified into pain, functional, and organic disorder groups. The psychosomatic and the neurotic showed a better control of the ego on the Rorschach scores, but the difference in several variables were recognized between the two. In three subcategory groups, scores showed the correspondence between the developmental ego stage and the somatization, and the organics were found to be the typical group of PSD. From these findings, it is suggested that the somatization is caused by the splitting mechanism between inner emotion and an adjustment to the outer world, and can be explained as kind of defense mechanism.
