title: [The gout patient and his illness role].
abstract: Within a psychosomatic research program of gout 41 patients suffering from this disease were explored with the psychoanalytic interview and examined with the Giessen-Test. The remarkable findings concerning the illness behavior depend on the narcissistic personality of the gouty patient. Besides the wellknown mutual relationship between heredity and nutrition within the aetio-pathogenesis of gout psychodynamic conditions must be considered as additional factors for clinical manifestation of hyperuricemia.
mesh_terms: D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006073:Gout / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009289:Narcissism; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders; D012803:Sick Role; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: Der Gichtpatient und sein Krankheitsbewusstsein.