[Psychosomatic correlations in neurotic cardiophobias]

A psychosomatic examination of 134 neurotic patients with the cardiophobic syndrome included psychological study, calculation of vegetative parameters, electroencephalography, and integral rheography. The authors have established the possibility of quantitative determination of severity of psychovegetative syndrome and shown its structural integrity and interrelationship between the level of anxiety and the degree and orientation of vegetative and hemodynamic changes. The factor of anxiety has been identified. The principles of pathogenetic therapy taking into consideration stable psychovegetative patterns are validated.