Mixed form (psychology)

In psychiatry and psychotherapy, a mixed form is a disease of a patient that is composed of several aetiologically or symptomatically separate clinical pictures ( comorbidity ). The opposite of the mixed form is the pure form .

The realization that mental illnesses can also be compound is historically important. You're probably going to the psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin back and was designed by Sigmund Freud in the psychotherapy introduced (see also Studies on Hysteria ). Before hybrid forms were discovered, the psyche was viewed as a more or less homogeneous structure and diseases were described as having a monocausal cause.

Examples:

• A patient can have a broken leg and liver cancer at the same time . Both are somatic diseases.
• A patient can have a personality disorder and a phobia at the same time . Both are mental illnesses.

Most psychotherapeutic patients suffer from mixed illnesses. However, pure forms also occur.