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Rorschach Responses of a Group of Adult Asthmatics

Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5

ABSTRACT

1. A group of adult asthmatics showed, when compared to a normal population, a significantly lower average number of responses to the Rorschach.
   
2. The same group, when compared with a carefully matched group of neurotics, also showed a significantly lower number of responses.
   
3. Only 3 per cent. of the asthmatic group as against 25 per cent. of the neurotic controls reached above a score of R = 42.
   
4. These results are of interest in view of the reported clinical assumption that asthmatics are inhibited in their mode of expression.
   
5. The asthmatic women were more restricted than the men in their responses to the Rorschach.
   

Further studies should include first a confirmation of these findings by bringing in more control groups for comparison; then an investigation of the causes which lead to a restriction responses to the Rorschach.

Received for publication February 10, 1954.