title: [The experience of the corporal self and the Rorschach test in severe obesity under medical-surgical treatment].
abstract: Purpose of this study is an investigation about the experience on the body Self and many relevant symbolic meanings in the massive obesity before and after the surgical therapy as well as a checking of the former obese patients in order to find out if such a heavy intervention may involve a modification of the body Self Perception in comparison with the former massive obesity situation. The investigation covered a sample group of 82 patients, and 12 of them were submitted again, after one year, to the Rorschach test with relevant evaluation through the Rausch de Trauenberg Self Representation Scale. The data thus obtained were considered again in a later phase by means of a sub-group of 10 obese patients compared with two checking groups consisting of subjects suffering from addiction pathologies (alcohol and opiate dependence) by means of the same method.
authors.affiliation: Università degli studi di Milano, Istituto di Clinica Psichiatrica.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clerici
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Papa
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Basile
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Invernizzi
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology; D001828:Body Image; D006801:Humans; D007581:Jejunoileal Bypass / Q000523:psychology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D012392:Rorschach Test; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Le vécu du soi corporel et le test de Rorschach dans l'obésité grave en traitement médical-chirurgical.