[Psychosomatic characteristics of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis].
Medical and psychological studies have established that the personality of a psychosomatic patient has characteristic specific features that determine his emotional reactions and lead to psychological and physiological destructions. Searching for the specificity of psychogenesis of pulmonary tuberculosis may be guided by the V. N. Myasishchev provisions of psychology of relations and should be aimed at analyzing the patients' significant experiences that cause their prolonged affective tension. This paper defines the tasks of studying the psychological and neuropsychological features of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and specifies an adequate set of psychodiagnostic procedures to solve the put problems. The findings may provide insight into the specific character of psychogenesis of pulmonary tuberculosis and into a relationship of the psychological traits of patients with this nosological entity to the physiological processes at the somatic and cerebral level.
Siresina
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Strel'tsov
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Stolbun
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IuV
Sel'tsofskiĭ
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D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology*