The article deals with the important questions of theoretical and practical researches in the current medicine - the influence of the chronic disease on the patient's personality and emotional changes, investigation of the chronic patient's relationship system, which may have an impact on patient's reaction on disease. It also considers the psychological models which underlay the development of personality conception of disease.

In modern epileptology was not emphasized influence of chronic disease on the personality of patient, on the treatment results and formation of the internal picture of disease.

Investigation of the internal picture is one of the important aspects of the treatment. The main objectives of psychological counseling and rehabilitation is helping patients to change the system of relationships, which comprises the patient’s attitude towards the disease, to own personality and to the environment in terms of his disease. This system of relations has mainly conscious character and therefore, should be directed to the formation of more realistic, adequate forms of personal reaction.

In this article it's discussed the one in the main question of current epileptology - the personality feature of people with epilepsy, the attitude towards their own disease. The epilepsy consider as a chronic disease, wich influence on the patient's relation system.

The patient's emotional and personality problems as well as the types of reactions supposed to deremine by the following factors:

• The character of disease - in case of epilepsy there are: the type of seizure, the onset of disease, the frequency of seizure, the lateralisation, the type of treatment;
• The social situation in which disease is developing, the social atittudes toward the epilepsy;
• The personal characteristics of a patient.
• The internal picture of the disease.
• Investigation of abovementioned factors are considered of first priority in the research of emotional and personality problems of patients with epilepsy.

 

D. Uznadze Institute of Psychology

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