[Sibling constellation and psychosomatic disease in adult years].

Patients of a psychosomatic department are described with regard to their sex, the number of siblings, and the position within the respective sibship. The tendency of seeking stationary psychoanalytic help in psychosomatic diseases seems to increase with the number of siblings. A prevalence of helders of a middle position is found. Correlation between sibling constellation and the nature of a psychosomatic disease could not be statistically proven.