ABSTRACT
We assumed at the outset that “neurosis” is defined as a psychogenic illness. In particular, organ neuroses (Organneurose) are the effect of a psychological cause in the sphere of the somatic. But there is also the opposite: the effect of the somatic in the psychological. Strictly speaking, we are dealing with psychoses that by definition would qualify as somatogenic and pheno-psychological. But what we are about to discuss are clinical pictures similar to neuroses. Their symptomatology is therefore, so to speak, a micropsychological one. In any case, claustrophobia can hardly be put in the same category as anxious melancholy. But its etiology is also a microsomatic one, so much so that in the relevant cases there is no structural change of organs or organ systems, but rather, mere functional disturbances, which is why we could also characterize these illnesses as functional.
