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Summary 1) 26 patients suffering from chronic urticaria were interviewed and given projective techniques ( Rorshach Test and TAT) in order to find basic personality traits common among the patients, whereby the psychodynamics of the disease may be inferred. As a result, one of important psychodynamics of the disease was inferred as following: The frustrations often experienced in childhood led the patients to have excessive need for affection and poor abiltity to have the need gratified by establishing warm relationship with their superior. Consequently, the patients are prone to be easily frustrated and harbor aggressiveness, be it oriented outward or inward. 2) 27 patients suffering from chronic urticaria were treated with hypnosis with considerably good results. 3) In 4 p, atients urticaria was artificially produced by directly suggesting urticaria or by suggesting emotional conflicts of repressed aggression. The results are considered as a positive evidence of the relation of emotional factors to the disease.
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