[The gout patient and his illness role].

Within a psychosomatic research program of gout 41 patients suffering from this disease were explored with the psychoanalytic interview and examined with the Giessen-Test. The remarkable findings concerning the illness behavior depend on the narcissistic personality of the gouty patient. Besides the wellknown mutual relationship between heredity and nutrition within the aetio-pathogenesis of gout psychodynamic conditions must be considered as additional factors for clinical manifestation of hyperuricemia.