Normopathy

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Classification according to ICD-10
F60.5 Anankastic [compulsive] personality disorder
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

Under Normopathie one is personality disorder of the people understood that in a compulsive expresses the form of adaptation to supposedly dominant and standardized practices and regulations within social relationships and habitats. A driving factor here is the exaggerated striving for conformity while giving up one's own individuality , which ultimately leads to different symptoms and symptoms and can develop into a pathological event. The unconditional over-adjustment to socio-cultural norms thus becomes a disease. Since, in principle, the desire for normality is not considered to be pathological, but rather a healthy attitude, the pathology of what is happening with its often somatoform symptoms is often not perceived as such.

term

The term "normopathy" was coined by Erich Wulff in 1972 and associated with certain personality structures.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Mechthilde Kütemeyer: Normopathie - hyper social trauma processing and somatoform dissociation. In: Psychotherapy in old age. 2007, 4 (1), pp. 39-53.
  2. Erich Wulf: Psychiatry and class society. On the conceptual and social criticism of psychiatry and medicine. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7610-5813-6 .
  3. ^ Hermann Lang, Hermann Faller, Marion Schowalter: Structure - Personality - Personality Disorder. Königshausen & Neumann , 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-2893-9 , p. 204 ff.
  4. Bärbel Röscheisen-Hellkamp: The concealment of the indestructible: An anthropological experiment on illness and health . Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6801-X , p. 64.
  5. Reza Madjderey: Normopathen. Volume 1, ATE, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89781-167-6 , p. 27 ff.