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W Zander

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PubMed1988

[Basic motor pattern in 4 neurotic structures].

This article discusses an experimental study in which 10 schizoid, 10 depressive, 10 obsessive-compulsive and 10 hysterical patients were filmed in five planned actions. On the basis of a questionnaire, the nature of the motoric process in each case was then evaluated by 11 people who knew nothing of the patients' personality structures. There were highly significant correlations between certain items and individual structures, allowing for the formulation of four basic patterns of movement for the individual structures. In the framework of the psychology of drives, these results confirm on the one hand the working hypothesis that motoric patterns develop in accordance with particular neurotic structures. On the other hand, the results can also be regarded as an indication of the value of defining these ordering principles.

Adult↗
PubMed1986

[Psychosomatics--a balancing enterprise?].

The present article supports the opinion of the main difficulty in psychosomatics being both in theory and in practice the consequent enforcement of our working hypothesis concerning the unity of body and soul against our spontaneous conception of the psyche as an immaterial entity. Furthermore, based upon the physiology of affects, an attempt is made at procuring a concept of the "psycho-somatic" unity with the aid of "exact imagination". As a further step the physical processes triggered by stress factors, i.e. the so-called stress together with the ensuing stress syndromes, are described. In analogy, the physical correlates of neurotic conflicts of ambivalence may be described as strain and the resulting disorders as strain syndromes. Finally, experimental findings confirming the above theories are presented.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1975

[Psychodynamic factors in some rheumatoid factor negative arthritic diseases (author's transl)].

A total of 32 patients with rheumatoid factor negative diseases were investigated by depth psychology: patients with palindromic rheumatism, Reiter's disease and psoriatic arthritis. In each case a typical psychosyndrome could be found correlative with the somatic syndrome, in which the specific form of working out of aggression was at the focal point. An association of psychic factors in the etiopathogenesis of these arthritic diseases is consequently very probable.

Adult↗
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[Problem of specific syndrome formation in psychosomatic disease situations. (Psychodynamics of rheumatic diseases)].

Three features of psychosomatic diseases with negative rheumafactor were psychoanalytically investigated (35 patients). Each of these diseases (the Palindromic Rheumatism, the Reiters Disease and the Psoriatic Arthritis), showed a characteristic syndrome. Corresponding with the patients with rheumafactor-positive Rheumatoid Arthritis was only the fact of inhibited aggressive impulses in the somatic field by the blockade of the muscle system. We believe that this study proves our earlier found thesis, that in psychosomatic diseases we have to work out the specific conflict, the specific psychodynamic ambivalence.

Adolescent↗
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[2 criteria for making differential diagnosis between primarily psychogenic and primarily organic body symptomatology easier].

Attation has been drawn to two criteria, which have been found to be helpful in the differentialdiagnosis between primary psychogenic and primary organic symptoms. 1. Psychogenesis is doubtful in cooperative patients from whom an initiating conflict-situation cannot be evaluated, if the time of onset does not relate to onset of symptoms, even if the pattern of symptoms seem to correlate with the structure of personality. 2. If a patient is too readily convinced of an exclusively mental source of his problems, one has to be aware of to deal with mechanisms called "inhibition of bodily threat" or "inhibition of death". These states of mental inhibition may also serve to demonstrate feelings of revenge against the respective individual.

Adult↗