Psychosomatic condition of children and adolescents with a bronchial asthma

Abstract

Purpose of the study. To identify the dominant psychological defense mechanism s in adolescent patients. Studies have been conducted in patients who are hospitalized in the departm ents of pulm onology, allergology at the Department of Pediatric Diseases No. 1 of the Tashkent Medical Academy. In children with asthma, the structure of emotional-personal characteristics is represented by a stable internal conflict, due to the accentuation of opposing personality traits in the same child. For the adolescent, the personality structure consists in the accentuation of hysterical and (or) epileptoid traits, in the manifestation of auto destructive tendencies, which are confirmed by the tendency to alcoholism.