Use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory to study deviate personality traits in selected hypochondriacal patients

A reasonable care of health is a necessary part of normal and satisfactory adjustment in any phase of life. However, when this care turns into excessive concern and preoccupation with one's health, to the detriment and exclusion of other activities, it becomes hypochondriasis, a disabling personality disorder, which consumes increasing amounts of the person's thought, time, and energy.