[Ego strength evaluated through the Bender test]

This article is aimed at observing the ego strength among a psychosomatic patients sample quantitatively. The Bender-Gestalt test (as per Pascal & Suttell's method) was administered to the above mentioned sample as well as a psychotic patients sample, and a control group. No differences were observed between the psychosomatic patients group, and the psychotic patients group performance. However, differences were observed when comparing with the control group performance.