Types of psychosomatic development of personality in psychosomatic disorders of gastrointestinal tract

612 patients with different psychosomatic disorders of gastrointestinal tract (GIT) were examined. They included either 200 patients with organic stomach disease or with duodenal ulcer as well as 412 individuals with various functional disorders of GIT such as psychogenic vomiting, dysphagia, gastralgia and colon irritability syndrome. In 70% of all cases patient's relatives (1-3 degree of relationship) had also some psychosomatic diseases. All the patients suffered in childhood from so-called GIT-variant of children's neuropathies. Being adults they all met intensive or moderate stress and developed psychogenic depression. Two ways of psychosomatic disorders crystallization on the background of depression were observed, exactly reactivation of children's neuropathy symptoms or rapid affect somatization which were followed by psychosomatic cycles formation and by stress tolerance decrease. Several types of psychosomatic development were described: hypochondrial (78.8%), asthenic (12.4%), obsessive (2.3%), hysterical (4.4%) and paranoial (2.1%).