Psikhologicheskiy status u bol'nykh psoriazom

The psychogenesis of psoriasis was studied by the Spielberg and Lüscher clinical and psychodiagnostic tests. Cause-and-effect relationships were found in the occurrence and course of psoriasis, which were used to identify 3 clinical types of its development: 1) somatogenic depression-complicated psoriasis; 2) psychogenic depression-associated psoriasis; 3) psoriasis as concomitant pathology of endogenous depression. It has been established that the course of the dermatosis is more frequently complicated by somatogenic depression in female patients and psychogenic psoriasis is commonly a determinant in its development in male patients.
The findings formed the basis for correcting affective disorders in patients with psoriasis, which permitted clinical remission to be achieved in a shorter periods of time.

psoriasis, stress, psychosomatic disease, depression