Abstract
This report deals with psychological analysis of seventy-five cases of vertigo who showed inconsistent results in equilibrium function test. These cases were treated at the vertigo clinic and the psychosomatic clinic in the department of otorlinolaryngology of The Jikei University School of Medicine. Their characteristic profile were divided into five types, that is, type A, B, C, D and E, according to the rosults in Yatabe-Guilford test (YG test). The effects of psychogenic factors upon the onset of vertigo were investigated.
The results of YG test were compared with those of other patients with vertigo.
In cases of type A, they were not tended to be affected by physical disorders and had a tendency to have vertigo inconsistent with the result of equilibrium test. The type B showed a marked tendency to have such vertigo affected by psychogenic factor. The type C was hardest of the five types to be influenced by both physical disorder and psychogenic factor. The type D was easy to be affected by physical disorder and psychogenic factor. Among the five types the E type had most marked tendency to have vertigo inconsisitent with equilibrium function test affected by psychological factors.
