[Personality structure and mental anorexia. A study using projective technics]

A sample of 73 females suffering from mental anorexia is examined. All were subjected to the Rorschach test. It emerges that the anorexic patients in the sample are basically characterised by hysterical or obsessive type personality structures. They have no structural traits definable as paradigmatic of the syndrome. The only feature connotating all subjects of the group consists of conflictual situations with regard to the maternal figure.