Crohn disease--addiction--neurosis: comparison of ego functions
Hartkamp, N.; Davies-Osterkamp, S.; Standke, G.; Heigl-Evers, A.
Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie 43(3-4): 75-81
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0937-2032 PMID: 8464966 Document Number: 416169
25 neurotic patients, 25 alcoholics, and 25 patients suffering from Crohn's disease were rated with a german adaption (by Streeck) of Bellak's Ego Function Assessment scales. Crohn's disease patients showed personality characteristics similar to those of patients suffering from psycho-somatic illness. Ego function disturbances could be found with respect to Introspection as a subfunction of Reality Testing, Creativity and Capacity for Abstraction as a subfunction of Thought Processes. The results indicated a remarkable heterogeneity of the Crohn's-patient group as well as possible influences of gender-specific personality differences in that group.