[The psychological rehabilitation of patients following reconstructive operations in congenital deformities of the jaw bones]. / Psikhologicheskaia reabilitatsiia bol'nykh posle rekonstruktivnykh operatsii pri vrozhdennykh deformatsiiakh cheliustnykh kostei.

Various methods of psychotherapeutic correction, used in patients with congenital deformations of the jaw bones, are described. Individual and group psychotherapy before, immediately and in late periods after surgery was used. Good results were achieved, confirmed by objective psychologic tests.

[Personal reactions of men and women to oncologic disease]. / Lichnostnye reaktsii muzhchin i zhenshchin na onkologicheskoe zabolevanie.

The authors carried out clinical and psychological examinations of 50 men and 50 women suffering from malignant tumours of the lower extremities before and after the operation (amputation of the affected extremity). The patients remained under observation for a year and a half. In all the patients reactive states were diagnosed the clinical picture and the time course of which has substantial differences in the male and the female groups. In the men the violent onset of the reactive state gave place first to a relative compensation and then to a depressive-hypochondriacal development of the personality. In the women the reaction was noted 3 to 4 months after the operation, and later they developed psychopathy-like disturbances.