900 patients with different psychosomatic diseases were observed. A leading
mechanism of the pathology development was found to be formation (through
the period of psychosomatic reactions) of mono- and polysystemic psychosoma
tic cycles responsible for the development of both primary and secondary ps
ychosomatoses in context of a single psychosomatic continuum. On the basis
of neurotic depression, at first, primary psychosomatosis developed. Beside
s, quantitative increase of psychosomatic pathology was observed within a d
amaged system. As far as monosystemic psychosomatic cycle transformed into
polysystemic one, secondary psychosomatosis formed including psychosomatic
pathology of some other organs and systems.