PSYCHOTIC ASSIMILATION AND PSYCHOTIC SHAP ING - THE RISK OF A WRONG DIAGNOSIS

We report on a 50-year old patient who on admission to hospital demons trated several disorders of sensation of her body which seemed to be b izarre and exclusively caused by a psychotic disorder. It soon turned out that a somatological disorder was of primary importance. The sympt oms of the somatic disorder had been assimilated and shaped psychotica lly. This serves to show that every patient should be examined careful ly for somatic disorders regardless of whether existing disorders of s ensation are bizarre or not.