[The unwanted pregnancy--a neurotic conflict solving attempt? An analysis of the conflict situations of 228 abortion patients].

In the gynaecological department of a Berlin hospital 228 abortion patients were examined during a period of ten months. The examination consisted of a psychoanalytic survey, the answering of the Giessen-Test S and a questionnaire on stress. The patients had had permission for abortion and were hospitalized. The abortions were to be carried on the next day. The crucial point of the survey was to classify the psycho-social situation at the time of conception. Several typical conflict-situations were determined in which the "unwanted pregnancy" as a symptom had had the function of overcoming the actual neurotic conflicts. The typical conflict-situations and the corresponding functions are described.