CLINICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL-ASPECTS OF REA CTION TO DISEASE (PROBLEM OF NOSOGENIAS)

<<Nosogenias>> is the term describing some reactive states. They accou nt for 15-90% of all the patients of somatic hospital. They are due to constellation of some psychotraumatic events related to somatic disea se. A total of 166 patients were examined, among them 55 patients with ischemic heart disease, 56 cases with hypertension and 56 ones with b ronchial asthma. The results evidence for the existence of two indepen dent vectors which characterise <<extremal>> points of continuum of di sease perseption. The importance of somatic trouble (hyper- or hyponos ognomia) was the basis of the first vector while the degree of complet eness of independent and the whole image of disease as something which differed from <<self>> (ego-dystonic and ego-syntonic perception of d isease) was the basis of the second vector. Combination of the above v ectors with clinical and psychological characteristics In the whole cl inical pattern of disease was recorded.