[Personality study of lung cancer patients].

Formerly the authors had studied the personality profiles of a sample of chronic patients, using the Rorschach psychodiagnostic method. They had found a set of Rorschach types which were closely associated with the presence of lung- cancer in the patients. This set was called by the authors a syndrome reflecting an overpowering, but latent, unconscious sense of crisis, of a catastrophe ("Catastrophe-syndrome").