Citation

Konigova R, Pondĕlícek I. Scand. J. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. Hand Surg. 1987; 21(3): 311-314.

Affiliation

Burn Centre of the Plastic Surgery Clinic, Charles University Hospital, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3441763

Abstract

From September 1980 to April 1985 143 cases were monitored by means of a battery of psychodiagnostic tests and questionnaires. We introduced the scoring of 4 behaviour 'clusters' on a five-point scale expressing different behaviour levels. Burns have proven to be somatopsychic disorders. A relation has been found with the imperative generation of the denial mechanism in persons whose burns are of a more serious nature. Research into the psyche of patients with disfigurement of a visible part of the body has shown that it causes the disintegration of the body schema and alters the burned individual's self-representation. The 'disfigured face syndrome' is compared with the 'character neurosis' in burn patients.

Language: en