神經症患者의 恐筛對象

THE FEAR OBJECTS OF THE NEUROTICS

It is attempted to clarify the fear objects of tha various neurotics. Two hundreds, aad sixty on© neurotics who had complained of pathological fears were selected in order to assess the imtaire- of fear objects. Patholoical fears were devided into five categories, those are fear of fmmaa, of clrcumstanceSs. of inanimate objects9 of illness deatk and of others. The meaa age of the subjects were 34-9 years old in the male and 35-5 years old in the female. The results of this study were as follows: 1. As to the categories of the fear objects, fears of circumstances and of illness were most frequently expressed. 2. As to the fear objects in each categories, the findings were as follows： 1) Fear of apeoplew which telongs to the human category was expressed most remarkably by the phobic neurotics. 2) As to the circumstances category, fear of height in the anxiety neurotics, fear of noise in the depressive neurotics and fear of “closed space” in the phobic neurotics were meaningfully expressed respectively. 3) As to the inanimate objects category, fear of dirt in the obsessive compulsive neurotics and fear of *red color” in the phobic neurotics were significantly expressed respectively. 4) Fear of death was significantly highly expressed by the depressive neurotics. 3. On the basis of this descriptive study, further studies about the meanings and dynamic sources of their pathological fears should be attempted in the future.