The Correlation of Psychic and Somatic Disorders

A psycho-somatic inventory.

“…The reliability of the inventory as determined by the split half and test-retest method was .80-87 (uncorrected). 4 The questionnaire method, either in differentiating psychoneurotic patients from normal subjects or in detecting subjects within the so-called normal group who have a large number of psychoneurotic traits, is of limited value because of the lack of a clear-cut clinical description of what constitutes a psychoneurotic and also because of the subjective nature of the test. An inventory such as the one developed in this study, which has been based upon empirical procedures with patients rather than logical ones, tends to differentiate patients diagnosed by the clinicians as psychoneurotic from the supposedly normal subjects In a certain percentage of the cases, depending upon the degree of cooperation of the subjects, such an inventory will detect the subject in the normal group who might profit by psychiatric guidance and treatment…”

Diagnostics of anxiety and dermatological index of life quality in patients with chronic actinic dermatitis

“…По образному выражению J. Klauder [1], «душа влияет на кожу сильнее, чем на любой другой орган… Кожа -орган, который по своей значимости для выра жения эмоций сравним только с глазами».…”