[The relationship between the neurotic and the pseudoneurotic in ulcerative and ulcerative and neurogenic-dyskinetic...

On the basis of a study of 142 patients with chronic colitis (nonspecific ulcerous and neurogenic-dyskinetic) the authors demonstrate the interreralations between the somatical and neuro-psychic pathology, in the structure of which neurotic-like, neurotic and personality reactions to the basic disease are closely interwoven. In the severe forms of the disease there is a predominance of somato-organic phenomena, in wild-neurotic symptoms. The quantitative and qualitative changes in the personality structure of 46 patients permitted to speak of a neurotic personality development.