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KMID : 0378019850280040081
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New Medical Journal
1985 Volume.28 No. 4 p.81 ~ p.89
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The Psychiatric Aspects of Phantom Limb Pain.
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Abstract
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For those 42 amputee, who had been admitted to Choong-Ang Hasp and Industrial Medical Rehabilitation Center during the period from Jan. 1, 1935 to March 31, 1985. I studied the psychiatric aspects of phantom limb pain.
All the amputee were industrial workers who had been amputated due to industrial accident.
All but one of the amputee had experienced phantom limb phenomenon and 20 were troubled or had been troubled by phantom pain.
The results of the study were as follows:
1. The occurrence of phantom pain had no relation with social class of the amputee.
2. Whether the personality type was introverted or extroverted had nothing to do with phantom pain experience, but occurrence rate of phantom pain was higher among those who had premorbid personality disorders, though not significant statistically.
3. The level of premorbid social adjustment was regarded to have some relationship with the experience of phantom pain (0.054. Arnong those who had various psychiatric problems after amputation, the occurrence, of phanton pain was significantly higher.
5. The occurrence of pantom pain didn´t seem to have any relation with the emotional attitude of the amputee to their physical defect.
6. The upper limb amputee seemed to have more emotional conflict in adapting to their physical defects than the lower limb amputee.
7. MMPI profile was not in accord with the presence or absence of phantom pain 8. Many a amputee showed stong resistence to Draw-a-person test.
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