[Study of the spread of aggressive behavior in patients with new-onset pulmonary tuberculosis]

Wearisome mental stress arising from experiencing aggressive sensations in the subjectively and objectively unbearable situation may be a significant contributor to the development of a psychosomatic disorder. A hundred and twenty patients with new-onset pulmonary tuberculosis underwent a psychological study. The steady-state personality trait in these patients is hostility as overpretentiousness, susceptibility to offence, and suspiciousness. The development of hostility in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis is associated with masterful upbringing in their parental families, which promotes the development of a sense of guilt, sensitivity to their criticism, restrained actions, and inattention. The inclination of these patients to feel themselves attacked victims forces them to mobilize their energy to repulse the aggressive reality as they perceive, maintaining the abnormally high level of affective tension that impairs autonomic balance in the body and makes the treatment of tuberculosis ineffective. It is expedient to take into account the revealed psychological characteristics of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in the mentally corrective constituent of a therapeutic process in order to achieve the optimal cooperation in the physician-patient-family system.