[Characteristics of the development and course of psychosomatic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract].

Clinical and experimental psychological examination of 340 patients with various psychosomatic abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract has demonstrated that functional and organic psychosomatoses have a uniform type of the development determined by identity of personality characteristics, homogeneity of responses to stress, stereotypy of psychopathological disorders (mostly of upper registry ones) with the formation of peculiar psychogenic somatogenic cycles. Formation of the latter leads to expansion of the spectrum of psychosomatic responsiveness due to the addition of other psychosomatic abnormalities (hypertension, angina pectoris, skin and sexual disturbances, etc.). The development of additional diseases may lead to considerable disadaptation of patients.