title: [Personality of the parkinsonian. Clinical and psychometric approach].
abstract: The personality of patients suffering from Parkinson's disease has been considered as the basis of a psychosomatic theory or more simply as a form of reaction. Between these two extremes the controversy continues and is modified by the use of dopaminergic agents. In this study, 30 patients suffering from parkinson's disease undergo a psychological examination and a M.M.P.I.; the results allow us to determine a pre-morbid obsessive personality coupled with agressivity and ambition. A transformation occurs with the arrival of illness; dependence, passivity, suggestibility evolve in a context where anxiety is relieved of all agressivity but acquires a depressive character. The people surrounding the patients play a part in this transformation. Moreover the pre-morbid characteristics of these patients remind the physician of H. Tellenbach's "typus melancholicus".
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000978:Antiparkinson Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011594:Psychometrics; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology
chemical_list: D000978:Antiparkinson Agents
vernacular_title: La personnalité du parkinsonien. Approche clinique et psychométrique.