[Typology of psychogenic mania].

In order to typologically differentiate between psychogenic manias, 20 patients (18 women and 2 men) aged 23 to 70 years with manic conditions that developed because of mental injury were examined. Based on the differences in certain clinical parameters pertaining mainly to the time-course of changes in the manic syndrome, 2 types of psychogenic mania+ were distinguished: genuine manic reactions and psychosis-provoked manic phases. Correlations were established between the type of psychogenic mania and the character of constitutional predisposition. Genuine manic reactions are primarily formed in hysteric subjects with reactive lability and proneness to the formation of catathymic complexes. Meanwhile the psychogenously provoked manic phases occur more frequently in persons with pathocharacterological manifestations of the affective circle (hyperthymics, expansive schizoids with affective lability phenomena).