PSYCHOSES AS PSYCHOSOMATOSES

Psychotic behavior is typically interpreted as the consequence of soma to-psychic decompensations of the CNS, a concept within which the vuln erability-stress-concept plays a central mediating role. The contrary conceptualization, namely to envisage psychoses from the point of view of psychosomatics, appears fruitful, if the question is raised, as to which psychic ''challenges'' lead to an internal destabilization of e quilibrium states between counteracting neuronal systems. In this cont ext it can be shown that ''neuro-constructivism'' represents a crucial model of understanding of the interaction between internal ''censorsh ip'', reality-hypotheses and sensory data. Psychotic behavior is inter preted as a decompensation of mechanisms of censorship.