NEUTRAL DISEASE .2.

In part I of his article the author introduces a clinical picture, whi ch he called ''Neutral Disease'', i.e. indifference towards life, char acterized by emptiness, inertia and anesthesia. In this part, the auth or discusses pathogenetical factors as well as peculiarities and diffi culties of treatment with these patients. These patients suffer under a specific repetitive compulsion, to repeat again and again what is ca lled by the author the ''myth of eternal abandonment''. To the author, the neutral disease is a consequence of the pathological structure of the nervous system, a disturbance of self-regulation. Psychodynamical ly he associates it with ontological insecurity as well as with Ammon' s concept of the hole in the ego.