@article{ref1,
title="Psychological aspects of burns",
journal="Scandinavian journal of plastic and reconstructive surgery and hand surgery",
year="1987",
author="Konigova, R. and Pondĕlícek, I.",
volume="21",
number="3",
pages="311-314",
abstract="From September 1980 to April 1985 143 cases were monitored by means of a battery of psychodiagnostic tests and questionnaires. We introduced the scoring of 4 behaviour 'clusters' on a five-point scale expressing different behaviour levels. Burns have proven to be somatopsychic disorders. A relation has been found with the imperative generation of the denial mechanism in persons whose burns are of a more serious nature. Research into the psyche of patients with disfigurement of a visible part of the body has shown that it causes the disintegration of the body schema and alters the burned individual's self-representation. The 'disfigured face syndrome' is compared with the 'character neurosis' in burn patients.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0284-4311",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}