[Psychiatric and psychometric examinations in Raynaud's syndrome (author's transl)]

20 patients with Raynaud's syndrome were examined psychiatrically, 15 of them psychometrically as well (Giessen test, Freiburg personality inventory). Psychiatrically, there were neither psychoses nor manifest neuroses, but a chronic overconformity, emotional restraint and a compulsive, often stiff way of life were found as group-characteristic features. Psychometrically, the group-personality profiles lay within normal range. Psychopathologically, they showed contours, uncertain at best, of obsessional structure. Coincidence of psychic conflict situations due to chronically social influences and frequent occurrences of Raynaud attacks was confirmed. Incorporation of psychotherapeutic and sociomedical measures into the therapy of Raynaud's syndrome is thus well founded and necessary.