[Psychopathology of cancer. A review of the subject].
This article is a critical review of the relationships between cancer and psychology. Three main issues have been addressed in the medical literature: the frequent occurrence of cancer in psychiatric patients, the existence of a specific personality in susceptible patients and the influence of psychological trials in the development of cancer. From a critical methodological study and his personal experience the author believes that: 1) cancer does not arise more often in psychotic patients than in others; 2) that the existence of a pre-morbid personality is far from certain; 3) but that the possibility that a psychological shock or a stressful situation may promote the development of a preexistent carcinoma cannot be outruled.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D012306:Risk; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*
Psychopathologie des cancers. Une revue de la question.