[Psycho- and somatoneuroses in comparison : anxiety neurosis/phobia--bronchial asthma. Psychosomatic inquiry study]

In order to answer the question of whether an interrater's stable facts make it possible to differentiate between neurosis, 50 psychosomatics (asthamatics) were compared with 50 psychosomatics (asthmatics) were compared with 50 psychoneurotics including 25 cases of anxiety neurotics and 25 phobics. The age at the time the patient became ill, the age at the time of the scientific investigation, length of illness, psycho- and psychosomatic pre-illnesses, former hospitalizations, primordial and accompanying symptoms, social facts, types of the conflict situation which triggered the illness and the results of intelligent tests were correlated with the main variabilities: neurosis, sex, character structure and tests for statistical significance: psycho and psychosomatic neurosis as well as anxiety neurosis and phobia are different from one another in numberous variabilities.