title: [Psychosomatic aspects of psoriasis: affectivity and conflict].
abstract: With a sample of 32 patients with psoriasis--compared with 22 control-persons--possible disturbances of the development of affectivity in the childhood of the patients were investigated (cluster- and factor-analysis). By this an essential point in psychosomatic theories could be explained: the inhibition of an immediate psychic discharge of affects. Further investigation concerned the question--, of how far conflict-coping-behavior of psoriatic patients is characterized by denial of reality, excessive repression and over-adjustment. Disturbed affective development and pathological conflict-behavior together may result in a chronic overstrain of psychic structures--as a correlate of the psychosomatic illness. Our results show a pathological conflict-behavior and a disturbed development of affectivity in the genesis of psoriasis. We found two subtypes of psoriatic patients with specific character-traits--whereas a typical personality could not be found.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010553:Personality Development; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000523:psychology*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011594:Psychometrics; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Zur Psychosomatik der Psoriasis: Affektivität und Konflikt.