Empty Nest Syndromeと思われる症例の検討

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While Studying etiological factors of psychosomatic diseases or neuroses in housewives in their thirties to fifties, we have become aware of their characteristic, neural and psychological conditions as described below. The subjects consisted of 35 cases of housewives in their thirties to fifties. All of these 35 cases were denied to have organic diseases. Their cheif conmhints were palpitation, depression, senstion of pharynx ill, etc. The onset of these symptoms in all the cases was in good agreement with the period when their sons or daughters had grown up and the wives were released from taking care of them. All their husbands were unconcened about their families. This condition seemed to accord with the concept of empty nest syndrome which was caused by a feeling of mental emptiness of middle-aged women whose sons or daughters lived away from their homes by reason of marriage. We helped the patients become aware of the condition of their disease. The symptoms were ameliorated or disappeared by making the patients recognize the condition of their disease with repeated interviews.
日本心身医学会の論文
1986-10-01