Abstract
Obsessive-compulsive traits and unresolved dependency conflicts were prominent in 17 patients with regional enteritis studied psychiatrically and medically. These characteristics often contributed to emotional stresses which precipitated attacks. Attacks of enteritis frequently led to changes in family equilibrium which in turn alleviated or removed the original stress. Patients with regional enteritis resembled psychologically descriptions in the literature of patients with ulcerative colitis. The mothers of these patients often were dominant, obsessivecompulsive, and hypochondriacal. Other similarities included low sexual interests, rigidity and inhibition in interpersonal relationships, and comparable Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test data. Noteworthy is the fact that in enteritis patients there was a high frequency of allergies.
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