[Psychotic processing and psychotic gestalt of somatic symptoms: the risk of diagnostic errors]

We report on a 50-year old patient who on admission to hospital demonstrated several disorders of sensation of her body which seemed to be bizarre and exclusively caused by a psychotic disorder. It soon turned out that a somatological disorder was of primary importance. The symptoms of the somatic disorder had been assimilated and shaped psychotically. This serves to show that every patient should be examined carefully for somatic disorders regardless of whether existing disorders of sensation are bizarre or not.