Проблеми сучасної психології (May 2022)
The Causes of Logoneurosis in Childhood
Abstract
The purpose of our research is to develop the problem of stuttering in the psychological aspect to reveal its genesis, to understand the behavior of people who stutter in the process of communication, to identify their individual psychological characteristics. Research methods. The research methods were the method of observation and the empirical study of patients. The place of organizing the empirical stage of our research was the psychiatric hospital № 1 in Kyiv. With the help of clinical, pathopsychological and anamnestic methods 86 children at the age 3-12 years old (the average age is 8 ± 0.5 years old) with logoneurosis in anamnesis were diagnosed. The results of the research. The pathogenesis of stuttering is studied and those who stuttered are noted to have various autonomic changes. 84% of people who stuttered are considered to have autonomic dystonia. Among 98% of people who suffered from logoneurosis, 20% had a high intracranial pressure and extrapyramidal disorders. It is studied that those people who stuttered were born with vasoneurotics. It was quite objectively showed a change in the neurovegetative response in those ones who stuttered during seizures: in 100% of cases there was dilation of the pupils (mydriasis), while in a case of people who spoke correctly, the width of the pupils during speech did not change or there was some narrowing (miosis). Conclusions. The reasons of logoneurosis are: neuropathic burden of parents (nervous, infectious and somatic diseases that weaken or disrupt the functions of the central nervous system); neuropathic features of a stuttering person (night terrors, enuresis, irritability, emotional tension); constitutional predisposition (diseases of the autonomic nervous system and increased susceptibility to higher nervous activity, its special predisposition to mental trauma); hereditary burden; brain damage in different periods of the personal development.
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