[Definition of psychogenic voice disorders]

Abstract

The clinical designation of the psychogenic voice disorder is discussed. "Psychogenic" is aetiologically by no means an apposite, or adjective, to organic diseases, for the occurrence of factors that can be defined as psychopathological (either primary or secondary) is always practically and clinically important--especially if these factors are of general psychosocial relevance, or of a latent depressive and neurotic nature. Hence, biographical anamnesis can be obligatory, supplying information that is essential for a therapeutic approach.