[Fasting-diet therapy combined with psychotherapy in hypochondriac conditions of neurotic etiology].

Forty patients with neurosis-induced hypochondriac conditions were placed on the fasting diet combined with a complex of psychotherapeutic measures. This makes it possible to enlarge the armamentarium of treatment measures to be given to patients suffering from neurosis-induced hypochondriac conditions. Criteria for predicting the efficacy of such measures were established, enabling early changes to be made in the treatment policy. Regularities of the reverse dynamics of hypochondriac conditions in patients on the fasting diet combined with psychotherapy are described.