TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1981//
TI  - Psychodynamics of Bechterew's disease
JO  - Zeitschrift fur Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychoanalyse
A1  - Zander, W.
SP  - 201
EP  - 215
VL  - 27
IS  - 3
N2  - Following earlier psychoanalytical articles on polyarthritic diseases without rheumatism factor, this investigation reports on patients with morbus Bechterew. The psychoanalytically expanded anamneses showed a distinct predominance of hysterical and depressive structures. With their friendly, open nature these patients appear cooperative and tension-free. They have problems when aggressive confrontations occur, especially with good acquaintances, from whom they expect recognition and friendly or loving attention. They try to earn these through a strong readiness to help, which often reaches a point of exhaustion. The causing situations appear especially characteristic: Before the disease started, most patients were able to sow their wild oats in all directions for a pretty long time. The disease breaks out when this lax style of living is given up, for the partner's sake, in a marriage or other firm kind of relationship. In their new life situation the patients cannot fully live their aggressive as well as their sexual needs in the accustomed way. A heightened muscular tension, as the physical correlate of this affective restraint, is postulated, which, as one of the factors, plays a role in the origin of morbus Bechterew.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>
LA  - de
SN  - 0340-5613
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -