[Personality in patients with lichen ruber planus (author's transl)]

Psychological tests were performed in 26 woman and in 4 men (average age = 41,2 years) with the histopathological diagnosis of lichen ruber planus. The same tests were given to 30 healthy persons without functional and organic disturbances. Results obtained do not indicate the existence of any specific personality structure in people with lichen ruber planus. The examined persons revealed an autoaggression syndrome characterized by a sense of guilt, inclination for blaming others and suspiciousness. The patients with lichen ruber planus reveal a tendency to react with neurotic anxiety. In 86,6% out of the examined 30 patients with lichen ruber planus, psychical trauma preceded this skin disease. The factors obtained from patients with lichen ruber planus and from healthy people showed significant statistical differences.