Disordered partner relations in neurotic diseases and treatment with psychotherapy
Kreische, R.
Zeitschrift für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychoanalyse 41(2): 108-126
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0340-5613 PMID: 7785368 Document Number: 445951
Couples with neurotic partner problems are characterized by considerable psychic and/or psycho-somatic complaints. Men usually judge the relationships with their spouses more satisfactory than women do. Women suffer more from conflicts in partner-relationships than men do responding to such conflicts with psychic and/or psycho-somatic complaints. Men are more disturbed by a conflict mobilizing therapy than women are. The strongest decrease of men's psychic symptoms can be found in the year after their therapy. Women's defence against psychic problems is less strong than men's. Decrease of women's symptoms can be found during therapy already. Character neuroses don't make psychic and/or psycho-somatic symptoms in a direct manner. Character neuroses rather give rise to conflicts with other people, and stress by those conflicts cause symptoms.