PERSONALITY TRAITS OF PATIENTS WITH ORGANIC NON-PSYCHOTIC MENTAL DISORDERS

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of actual and insufficiently studied task of medical psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry, namely: the study of personality characteristics of patients with organic non-psychotic mental disorders. The article analyzes personal traits especially among patients with organic non-psychotic mental disorders according to prevaluate scales according to the MMPI method. Concluding, psychocorrectional and psychotherapeutic work with patients suffering from organic non-psychotic mental disorders, requires a differentiated approach taking into account prevailing personal characteristics. The study revealed the predominance of the scales of the «neurotic under-control», «pessimism», «emotional lability», «rigidity», «anxiety» and «individualism». The results of the study suggest that more effective methods of psychotherapeutic work with this population of patients may be such forms of psychotherapy like individually-personal and analytically- oriented.