95. On the Feasibility of Predicting Psychosomatic Disorders by the Data of Projective Techniques. E. Ya. Lunts

Central Clinical Hospital of Civil Aviation, Moscow

Summary

The specific conditions of flying activity, connected in many cases with situations of emotional stress, occasionally lead to the development of psychosomatic disorders in pilots of a definite nervous and mental makeup. Therefore, early recognition and, what is more, prediction of such disorders acquires importance in the practice of medical examination of fliers.

The author studied a group of fliers by Rorschach's technique. The findings were compared with the results of clinical and experimental-psychological investigations. Follow-up observations showed that if the Ss persistently retained a definite level of anxiety attended by a repressive type of experiences and opposition, these changes pointed to an enhanced probability of the subsequent development in them of some form of psychosomatic disorder.

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