[A basic psychodiagnostic program for internists]

Z Gesamte Inn Med. 1990 Sep 1;45(17):512-4.
[Article in German]

Abstract

The increasing frequency of disturbances of the health, in which psychic and/or social influential factors are significant, reflects also in the number of patients of the specialist of internal medicine who is working in the outpatient department, the hospital and in a subspeciality. This requires from the specialists of internal medicine, if he will satisfy the claims of his patients for a comprehensive diagnostics and effective therapy, from the very beginning and in all phases of the care the involvement of a basic psychodiagnostics. Hereby the problem in question is an enhanced internal establishment of the anamnesis under psychodiagnostic aspect, which serves for the clarification of psychic and/or social influences on signs and symptoms, the experience of the and the course of the disease. An orientating systematization and a way to the positive diagnostics of neuroses, psychosomatic diseases or disturbances and further functional syndromes in the field of internal medicine are presented which demand the graduated psychotherapeutic measure.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Internal Medicine
  • Psychophysiologic Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Psychophysiologic Disorders / psychology
  • Sick Role*
  • Somatoform Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Somatoform Disorders / psychology