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Case Reports
. 1978 Jan-Mar;24(1):87-9.

[Choreatic movement disorders as a psychosomatic syndrome]

[Article in German]
J Wischnewski
  • PMID: 636676
Case Reports

[Choreatic movement disorders as a psychosomatic syndrome]

[Article in German]
J Wischnewski. Z Psychosom Med Psychoanal. 1978 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

A psychogenic movement disorder can immitate sometimes a choreatic syndrom. In the present report a young lady with choreatic movement disorders is described, the causes of which were psychogenic. Of central importance in this case history is the repressed agression, which is experienced as "killing".

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