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Rorschach studies of fifty patients suffering from rosacea or excessive blushing or both and fifty controls were undertaken. The greatest discrepancy appeared in the color responses of the two groups. Good form color responses were rare and weak color responses frequent in the patient group. The reverse was true of the control group. Though the total number of human movement responses was about equal in the two groups, there was a greater percentage of M-responses seen in small details in the patient group. Twenty-four percent of the patients mentioned 'eyes' in their responses, in contrast to four percent in the control group. (This suggests a paranoid tendency, according to Lindner.) Content analysis portrayed an excessive amount of castration anxiety and of sexual inversion in the patient group. Plesch concludes that the findings suggest a correlation between poor emotional impulse control and proneness to rosacae and morbid blushing, and that the poverty of erotic control denotes a faulty or undeveloped ego structure. These findings are not specific to rosacea and morbid blushing but are characteristics of psychosomatic states in general. Though Lindner's theory that eyes seen in the cards is a paranoid sign is not yet proven, the author finds some corroboration in the striking frequency of unusually violent homosexual and castration responses.