[Psychological studies on adipositas]

The obesity belongs to the diseases with a great socio-medical importance. 75 patients with obesity were examined by means of the psychopathological short-time method issued by Hennig and Mehl, which was developed from Kincannon's mini-mult. Here in 30 obese patients (ca. 40%) increased values in at least one clinical scale appeared, which may be estimated as a reference to a neurotic mode of behaviour. Thus, neurotic modes of behaviour seem to appear more frequently in patients with obesity than in the average population (10%), however, more infrequently than in essential hypertonics (70%). Neurotic (Broca index + 30 kg) and non-neurotic (Broca index + 29 kg) patients with obesity had on an average the same overweight.