[The personality characteristics of normal pregnant women and in pathology].

Altogether 357 pregnant women were examined for the personality traits using a method of an all-round study of the personality. In 96 women (group I), the course of gestation appeared favourable, whereas in 134 women, it was complicated by late gestosis (group II), and in 127 women, by threatening premature delivery (group III). The personality traits of the group I women turned out to keep within the limits of the "conditional norm" in the presence of moderate anxiety. For the p pregnant women belonging to groups II and III, the general "register syndrome" was defined as a psychogenic-neurotic one. The differences in the personality types were established in these groups. The late gestosis group was characterized by the autistic-rigid mode of reacting whereas that with the threatening premature delivery by the anxious-phobic type of reacting.