| pubmed-article:7458104 | pubmed:abstractText | 35 cases of sarcoïdosis were studied at the onset of the disease. 25 cases of important or deep anxiety were recorded. None of them was correlated nor with organic lesions or medical seriousness, neither with psychopathic background, previous mental illness or treatment by corticoidic drugs. All patients were submitted to the Rorschach test, the self-assessment test of Catell, the Rosenzweig picture frustration test and the agressiveness rating scale test (L.-F. Gayral). It appears that, by comparison with three control groups: A) without sarcoïdosis but with another pulmonary disease, B) "normal", C) psychopathic personality. There is not a mental type profile for the patients with sarcoïdosis. Anxiety or/and with depression, or agressiveness are more important and frequent in patients not treated by corticoïdes than in patient treated. Another conclusion is the necessity to dispense careful psychotherapy to patients with sarcoïdosis, although the case does not require medical treatment. Quite contrary these last patients peculiarly need psychotherapy. | lld:pubmed |
