Personality Dispositions in Psychosomatic Disorders

Yazykov K. G., Nemerov E. V., Danilets A. V.

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In this article the author analyses the problem of psychological concept of psychogenic-induced bronchial asthma. With the help of multivariate statistic analysis the discriminative traits (scales of MMPI, Cattell 16PF) of the given bronchial asthma are showed. A hypochondriac anxiety-depressive radical is found to be patients’ specific personal feature. Anxiety as a main feature is transformed through protective mechanisms into a definite somatic state. The idea of bodily pathological phenomena of breath as sign-symbolic function is discussed in the frame of Thostov’s conception.

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Issue: 1, 2005

Series of issue: Psychology

Rubric: Empiric Research

Pages: 134 — 139

Downloads: 1043