On the importance of psychological stress in diagnosis and treatment
AUTHORS : Pastukhova ON THE. | Pastukhov V.N.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : MC “Health Formula”, Yekaterinburg, Russia
YEAR : 2008
The clinical experience accumulated over the years of working with patients in a therapeutic hospital allowed us to form our own opinion about the role of the psyche in the formation of diseases. The existing term “professional patient”
the psychotype of the patient for whom his illness has value, measured by the
doctor’s attention to it. Such patients are happy to talk about the symptoms of the
disease, the order of their appearance, go to a demonstration in student
audiences, and are continuously treated. Their best friends are nurses. Once again,
appearing in the ward, they say “I have come to give up” and are located at home
in the ward. It is not possible to cure such patients, because the disease has
become the raison d’être of their existence, and they compensate for the deficit of
attention in communication with medical personnel.
