Neurosis, Issues of Etiology, Pathogenesis, Outcome and Treatment

INTRODUCTION There is still disagreement in understanding the causes, mechanisms, prevention and treatment of neurosis [1,2]. The model in which neurosis is considered a clinical form of adaptation disorder [3,4], leading to a disruption of basic levels of regulation, is relevant. The association of neurotic and somatoform disorders (SFD) in one diagnostic group seems to be erroneous, since neurosis, unlike SFD, has a somatic, not somatized nature of disorders [5]. It is also controversial to combine neurosis with anxiety states, because anxiety is not always paired with stress and the patient's personality.