Psychopathological peculiarities of somatisation depression, depending on the type of the course of affective disorder

129 inpatients with affective spectrum disorders, whose clinical picture included besides affective component, also multiple somatization symptoms, have been examined. Clinical study supplemented with use of BSDS scale made it possible to distinguish three clinical groups: recurrent depression (RD), probably bipolar depression (PBD) and distinctly bipolar depression (BD). The dependence of clinical characteristics of depression with somatization on the type of course of affective disease within oppositional versions - recurrent depression (RD) and distinctly bipolar depression (BD) has been shown.