PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF IMMUNE DISORDERS

Immune disorders are a vivid example of psychosomatic illness. A psychosomatic disorder is a clinically defined group of symptoms or behavioral symptoms that in most cases cause suffering and impede personal functioning. Results of the study. Psychology of immune disorders is an area of knowledge, which combines the experience of immunology and psychosomatic medicine with the experience of psychology and psychotherapy: the psychological status of people with immune and autoimmune disorders, has a number of peculiarities. Overvoltage and stress provoke, intensify and prevent recovery in the case of immune diseases. Numerous problems of people with immune diseases are summed up in the notion of violations of the contact boundaries of the interaction of the individual with the world, other people and with themselves, following fictitious goals and deformations that destroy the life-affirming potential of the person and group. Conclusions. A person needs experience and achievements, but they are not an end in themselves. A person needs contact with other people; however, he is only able to be himself when contact and departure are harmonious. A person needs to throw out all unnecessary, superfluous desires from his life. However, not all psychological reactions in immune disorders are negative: there is a reorientation from liveliness and self-denial to life-assertiveness and self-assertion.