This study was conducted with 40 migraine patients and 40 healthy controls for the purpose of studying the psychiatric aspects of migraine. Both groups were subjected to a clinical neuropsychiatric examination, psychometric testing using the Bender Gestalt (BG); Trail Making (TM) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) tests. Results of the clinical evaluation show that emotional stress, menses, exhaustion, and hunger were the most common precipitating factors for migraine attacks. Obsessiveness, independence, and alertness were the most common personality traits of the migraine patients. The most common psychiatric symptoms were depression, irritability, retarded thinking, and anxiety. The results also show a significant relationship between severity of the migraine and depression and irritability. Psychometric studies show: 1) the scores of patients on the BG and TM were significantly lower than scores of controls, 2) patients showed higher neuroticism and lower extraversion than the control group on the EPQ.