PERSONALITY-CHARACTERISTICS IN PATIENTS S UFFERING FROM REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY - A PSYCHOANALYTIC INVESTIGATION

Authors
BROMMEL B FIALKA V ESCHBERGER D HEXEL M KORPAN M PATERNOSTRO T REITER N WAGNER G FRISCHENSCHLAGER O
Citation
B. Brommel et al., PERSONALITY-CHARACTERISTICS IN PATIENTS S UFFERING FROM REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY - A PSYCHOANALYTIC INVESTIGATION, Zeitschrift fur Psycho-somatische Medizin und Psychoanalyse, 39(4), 1993, pp. 346-355
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychology,Psychiatry,Psychology
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Psycho-somatische Medizin und Psychoanalyse → ACNP
ISSN journal
03405613
Volume
39
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
346 - 355
Database
ISI
SICI code
0340-5613(1993)39:4<346:PIPSUF>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
We examined 22 patients suffering from reflex sympathetic dystrophy wi th psychoanalytic interviews. In all 22 patients we found a common psy chological structure corresponding to Balint's basic fault (Balint, 19 70). For people with this structure the accident that preceeded the re flex sympathetic dystrophy and the following pain, immobilisation and need to help are promoting the patient's regression in a specific way ending in the developing of reflex sympathetic dystrophy. The dispair of the patients about their reflex sympathetic dystrophy expresses uns olved fears of early childhood.