[Expert assessment of psychosomatic disorders in rheumatology].

There are often big problems regarding expert evidences of psychosomatic clinical pictures, because, contrary to the complaints expressed and perceived by the patient, somatic findings are not evident to justify a permanent disablement. Nearly without exception it is a question of chronified cases of psychosomatic complaints up to real psychoneuroses. The diagnosis and delimination from a simulation is difficult and is frequently failed. Without doubt there are cases, in which only the psychic component determines the vocational disablement.