title: Behçet's disease and psychosomatic patterns of thinking. A single case study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A single case of Behçet's disease was studied throughout several consultations during a period of 15 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  The evolution of the disease was related to important events in the subject's life, cognitive patterns, psychopathological features and, particularly, his relationships to women and to his family.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Some interesting complex correlations between illness course and psychosocial events and states were highlighted.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Future prospective studies could better elucidate this multiple feedback.
authors.affiliation: Psychosomatic Medicine Unit SDSM/RMB, Rome and Institute of Psychiatry, Tor Vergata University, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Orsucci
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales