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The unconscious fantasies and the personalities of patients with neurodermatoses suggest that they have marked masochistic tendencies, depreciating their own bodies as unclean. They differ from control subjects in their defenses against exhibitionistic tendencies. They show more repressed hostility and are in conflict with a powerful, distant father and a rejecting mother; and they tend to conceive of their bodies as surrounded by a kind of barrier that serves to control both internal disruption and external threats.