The British Journal of Psychiatry (1969) 115: 1269-1276. doi: 10.1192/bjp.115.528.1269
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Mental Symptoms and Personality Structure in Autoerythrocyte Sensitization Syndrome

TORE HÄLLSTRÖM MED. LIC.1, KJELL HERSLE MED. LIC.2, and HÅKAN MOBACKEN MED. LIC.2

1 Department of Psychiatry, Sahlgrenska Sjukhuset (University of Gothenburg), 417 45 Göteborg, Sweden
2 Department of Dermatology, Sahlgrenska Sjukhuset (University of Gothenburg), 417 45 Göteborg, Sweden

Two new cases of autoerythrocyte sensitization syndrome are reported, with special emphasis on psychiatric aspects. The relevant literature is reviewed. The patients exhibited hysteroid, sensitive and psychoinfantile personality, traits, inadequate social adaptation and mental insufficiency with, among other things, hysteriform manifestations and autonomic dysfunction. It is emphasized that cerebral damage may have been present. Explanatory models are presented to account for the observed association between the specific somatic symptom picture and the fairly consistent psychiatric features.

Submitted on September 5, 1968




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