Non-psychotic mental disorders in women: age aspect

The paper presents results of study of the role of psychosocial factors and types of response in women of climacteric age with hysterical manifestations in the structure of non-psychotic mental disorders. A multidimensionality of stress (intra-family, occupational, intra-personality) factors has been revealed that coincide in time with ontogenetic crisis of climacteric age. Anxiety-depressive, physical-hypochondriac and psychopath-like types of response in crisis situations have been described in women of climacteric age. It has been shown that preventive activities against pro-tracted course of non-psychotic mental disorders in women of climacteric age are availability, timeliness and integratedness of medical care, clearly structured algorithm of complex diagnostics, differential diagnostics and treatment.