Psychological Aspects of Menìegre's Disease: Preliminary report

Abstract

Forty-three patients with MenìeGre's disease were chosen at random from hospital case material. They were subjected to analysis of the personality pattern on the basis of observations from interviews and of the Rohr-schach test.

It appeared that the degree of psychic stress present was especially marked at the time the disease started. In those patients who were cured and free from attacks of vertigo, the degree of stress was also less. By contrast, in the patients who were not cured, various life stresses of very marked degree were still present at follow up. The stresses due to emotional factors and to difficulties at work and in marriage were the most severe. Accumulation of various stresses to form a severe total of stress occurred most frequently in the group of patients who were not cured.