いわゆる非行少年における心身症 : 神経性嘔吐の1例

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The majority of incarcerated delinquents show sings and symptoms of psychosomatic disease.Such signs and symptoms might be explained as psychophysiological reactions under confinement.In addition to it, we think juvenile delinquents are psychopathologically susceptible to psychosomatic disease. Delinquency and psychosomatic disease have much in common. They often emerge at adolescencde. Delinquents and patients with psychosomatic disease have similar histories and family dynamics. So, it is possibel to regard delinquency as a behavioral manifestation of psychosocial stress, and psychosomatic disease as its somatic manifestation.We report a case that showed an interesting relationship between delinquency and psychosomatic disease during its course.The patient is a 17-year-old boy who was incarcerated in a reformatory school for the secong time because of his violent behavior and methamphetamine abuse. While in the reformatory school, he suffered from continual vomiting and remakable weight loss, and bothered himself about eating behavior disorder. On the contrary, being free, he did not vomit and kept his normal weight.
日本心身医学会の論文
1983-12-01