TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1987//
TI  - Psychological aspects of burns
JO  - Scandinavian journal of plastic and reconstructive surgery and hand surgery
A1  - Konigova, R.
A1  - Pondĕlícek, I.
SP  - 311
EP  - 314
VL  - 21
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0284-4311
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -