Effect of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Relaxation Practices in Chronic Migraine Patients through Rorschach Inkblot Test

The present study attempts to examine the effect of cognitive behaviour therapy and relaxation practices on chronic migraine patients. Hundred thirty seven (137) patients were consisted for this study out of these 50 treated and 50 non-treated patients were evaluated at SIMPHS Varanasi (India). The two groups were matched on age range from 20 to 55 years with a mean age of 38.4 years and mean length of intolerable pain of 6.8 years. Rorschach Inkblot Test was administered to ascertain personality characteristics on twenty two selected responses viz: total responses, whole responses, obvious details, rare details, movement, color, color-form, formcolor, vista, shading, affective ratio, human, human detail, anatomy, good form, animal, popular, lambda, white space, T/IR and rejection of cards. Mean scores obtained on different variables were analyzed using t-test of significance. Results indicated that the characteristics associated with treated chronic migraine patients were total responses, whole responses, obvious details, movement, affective ratio, human detail, good form, animal, popular, and lambda whereas the characteristics associated with non-treated chronic migraine patients rare details, csum, color, color-form, form-color, vista, shading, human, anatomy, white space, T/IR, and rejection of cards.