[Pain syndrome in children with depression].

As many as 180 children aged 4 to 14 years with depression and pain were examined. According to psychopathology senesthopathic pains, pains with vital depersonalization, hallucinatory pains, and pains marked by elements of delirious perception, and undifferentiated pains were distinguished. The authors review some typological varieties of depression and pain: somatoalgic crises associated with somatized depression and pains associated with depression and depersonalization, somatoalgic crises in depression associated with pseudoneurological disorders, somatoalgic crises in the structure of nocturnal fears in the presence of anxious depression, somatoalgic crises in the presence of short-term well-defined episodes of psychomotor excitation or stupor with fear, distress, dysphoria, hallucinations, senesthohypochondriac conditions in the presence of anxiety, somatoalgia in the structure of the depressive and delirious syndrome. Discuss problems of the disease entities, pathogenesis and therapy.