[Psychosomatics of psychogenic faint (vasovagal syncope) (author's transl)].

Psychogenic faint (vasovagal syncope) shows no difference with respect to age and frequency of attacks in women and men. A marked increase in frequency is found in earlier ages up to 25. Physical complaints include: blackout, weakness of the limbs, sensation of heat, nausea, palpitations, drowsiness. Mental sensations include: feeling of being overpowered, fear, helplessness, being unable to run away and of relief. Subjective emotional involvement in the situation seems to be decisive for eliciting psychogenic syncope, the subject being no longer able to control the situation from the psychic aspect and allows himself to "fall in to a faint".