Reddening and Paranoid Experience: Some Psychological and Biological Implications
- 1 January 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
- Vol. 10 (1) , 45-52
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000285617
Abstract
The author studied 20 female patients suffering from rosacea, morbid reddening, or both and found that all members of the group revealed conspicuous paranoic trends. Also observed was the operation of a well defined defence system protecting them against these trends. The operative factors of the defence system showed a point to point correlation with operative factors of comparable systems seen in animals. A detailed study of the correlations suggested that rosacea, or morbid reddening, is a vestigial biological factor in the patients'' paranoid defences, emerging in states of regression.Keywords
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- Rosacea and Morbid ReddeningPsychosomatic Medicine, 1960