An attempt was made, chiefly by projective tests and questionnaires, to find whether there are body image experiences which distinguish psychiatric patients from normal persons, and to determine if neurotic and schizophrenic patients differ in their body perceptions. Areas of concern included general body interest, over-all size, size of parts, depersonalizations, boundary, and references to feeling dirty. The psychiatric patients reported a greater number of body distortions than normal women. Efforts to distinguish neurotics from schizophrenics were not successful. Psychiatric patients tended to have experienced sensations of diminished body size more frequently than normal subjects—the only relatively unique kind of distortion.