ABSTRACT
UNLABELLED: In addition to organic and hereditary factors, psychological variations among individuals are also known to play an important role in the etiology of essential arterial hypertension. OBJECTIVE: To investigate in detail the psychological processes possibly involved in the etiology of essential arterial hypertension. METHODS: A group of 20 subjects, all of whom where diagnosed as suffering from essential arterial hypertension, was studied using psychological interviews and the Rorschach Test. The results obtained were compared with those gathered from normal (non-hypertensive) individuals represented by the Rorschach Test for the Brazilian population. RESULTS: In terms of personality structure, the hypertensive group presented signs of subjective and immature mechanics which prevailed over more mature and adult traits. These characteristics lead the patients to emotional withdrawal as a defense inadequate affectivity. CONCLUSION: The blocking of emotional expression, as well as simultaneous anxiety, may affect the autonomic nervous system and lead to periodic transitory hypertensive crises which, with time assume a permanent nature.
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Hypertension/psychology , Adult , Affective Symptoms/psychology , Female , Humans , Interview, Psychological , Male , Middle Aged , Rorschach TestABSTRACT
O presente estudo teve por objetivo investigar os dinamismos psicológicos possivelmente envolvidos na etiologia da renite alérgica perene. Assim sendo, 30 foram estudados através de entrevistas psicológicas e do teste das pirâmides coloridas de pfister. Os dados assim obtidos foram comparados com os da populaçäo de näo-riníticos, representada pela amostra utilizada por Robert Heiss para a padronizaçäo do teste da pirâmide de Pfister. O resultados de ambos os instrumentos de avaliaçäo revelaram que o grupo estudado apresenta dificuldades psíquicas intrínsecas, próprias de falhas no desenvolvimento afetivo-emocional, apontando mais para uma linha neurótica de estruturaçäo da personalidade
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Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Middle Aged , Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial/psychology , Psychophysiologic Disorders , Personality Tests , Case-Control Studies , Interview, PsychologicalABSTRACT
The objective of this investigation is to study the involvement of the psychological process in the etiology of perennial allergic rhinitis. Thirty patients with perennial allergic rhinitis, submitted to a Program of Hyposensibilization to Home Dust at the ENT Department, were selected. All patients were studied through psychological interviews and Pfister Colored Pyramid Test. Our results were compared to those obtained by Robert Heiss in his studies of standardization parameters (non rhinitic sample). The study revealed that our patients present intrinsic psychological difficulties characteristic of failures in the affective--emotional development and points out to a neurotic line of personality structuration.
