Psychodynamic vectors of development of mental disorders in adolescents

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In the studied sample there were 303 adolescents with mental health problems (81 persons were persons with psychological problems and have not been found as having mental disorders, 82 adolescents had neurotic disorders, 64 -behavioral disorders and 74 - affective pathology). The analysis of the interaction between the selected mental phenomena, has allowed us to identify the following main types of organization of mental patterns in adolescents. Type I - the phenomena characteristic for neurotic personality structure, developing conversion (pseudosomatic) symptoms (66,7 % of patients). Type II - characteristic for borderline personality structures, and developing a severe hypochondriac disorders, obsessive fears of infection (18,5 % of patients). Type III - characteristic for mental structures with limited inner mental world, with collapsed mental space, incapable of creating a buffer of a neurotic symptom or delirium and developing severe somatopsychoses (14,8 %).

adolescents \ mental health \ mental patterns

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