“…Studies have appeared which lend credence to the fact that it measures body experiences related to the indi vidual's differentiation between exterior and interior regions of his body (20, 46). It has proven to be positively correlated with the occurrence of psychosomatic symptoms at exterior as contrasted to interior body sites (23, 126, 144) and with relatively higher physiological activation of exteri or as compared to interior body sites (7,20,127,144,149). It has further shown itself to be meaningfully related to ability to communicate (22, 115), insight about self (41), hypnotic susceptibility (39), sex differences in body perception (43), response to sensory isolation (116), effects of consuming alcohol (lOS), clothing preferences (25), delay in seeking medical consulta tion (53), tachistoscopic thresholds for pictures of body areas (19), delin quent behavior (86), yielding behavior (31), adjustment to body disability (129), and development of paranoid versus non paranoid schizophrenic symptomatology (26).…”