心身症患者の「存在」危機

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抄録

　In the paper, I reported on the problems of an existential crisis of human beings living in modern society observed in the study on 12 psychosomatic patients.
　In general, "existence" is a philosophical term. In the study, this term was not used as any established philosophical ideas regarding "existence". That is, I treated with an existential crisis of modern human beings in relation to the partial absence of a centrally firm sense of his own and other people's reality, identity and potentiality.
　As well known, the psychosomatic disease is a condition of the patient suffering from primary or secondary psycho-social factors. Thus, it is possible to understand this disease as a psycho-social phenomenon.
　12 male patients with some psychological conflicts caused by occupation were selected for the study to find out some tendency of the existential crisis.
　Results obtained can be summarized as follows:
　1) The patients can be classified into two main types in character: one is the patient group which have anxiety for being reifing himself and want to get a position to control other people, and another is the group which have anxiety for reifing other people and can not depersonalize himself.
　2) Their conflicts can be separated two types of character regarding inner needs: one is the type showing the need of self-expansion, and another the type of self-confirmation.
　3) Analysis of the relationship between society and self in themselves indicates that their inner conflict would occur between "expected personality" and "inner-self". Thus, one type of inner conflict is stemmed from over-conformity "expected personality", and another type is from adherent to "inner-self".