著者

加藤 隆吉

出版者

人体科学会

雑誌

人体科学 (ISSN:09182489)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.2, pp.43-47, 1999-10-30

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This study is based on an investigation of 356 patients who complained about an unidentified clinical syndrome during the period between 1983 and 1994. This unidentified clinical syndrome, with its diversified symptoms and deep-rooted factors, is a serious problem. The patients suffer for long periods of time with no appropriate treatment. Many of them repeatedly visit medical facilities, receive folk remedies or resort to religion. Up to 28% engage in antisocial behavior such as pachinko gambling addiction, consumer-loan addiction, kitchen-drinking and drug dependency. The more the patients become absorbed in these diversions, the lighter their symptoms seem to become. Husbands who have been affected by these unidentified clinical syndromes in their wives can take refuge in divorce or even sexual abstinence, but frequently mistreat their children. The incidence of problem children who refuse to attend school and exhibit anorexia nervosa as an escape mechanism is on the increase, and they are also left adrift without receiving effective clinical treatment. Problem children in themselves cause problems, but their mothers are frequently the root-cause. In addition, in many cases, their fathers are involved as well. Resolving the family's problems is the most important task. If the couples remain sexless, with the wives thus going into menopause at an early age, they will become susceptible to the unidentified clinical syndrome. Why do they engage in sexual abstinence? The reason for it is a sexual disorder. Male sexual disorders can be detected rather readily, but female cases are difficult to detect. In the meantime, family problems occur from causes buried in the subconscious mind. These couples experience the unidentified clinical syndrome with a sexless relationship.