Clinico-psychopathological characteristics of the mental disorders at a neurotic level detected in patients at a general polyclinic
Siriachenko, T.M.; Mitikhina, I.A.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 87(12): 1820-1824
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 3447396 Document Number: 299467
Examination of patients observed at a general somatic outpatient centre showed that 31.2% of the patients had mental disorders of the borderline level. Most commonly occurring among the psychopathological syndromes were atypical affective conditions with definite somatization of mental disturbances, which was expressed in massive somatic sensations (senestopathies), vegetative irregularities, and somatic pathology of the functional character. Such conditions made up 62.7%. The given syndromologic type is defined as senestopathic-hypochondriac depression which is subdivided into two variants depending on the nature of the symptomatology. The study has shown that the revealed psychopathological syndromes of the borderline level predominantly refer to the endogenic process of low intensity and less frequently to personality pathology at the stage of decompensation.