[Reactive and adaptive phenomena in bronchial asthma].

Psychological phenomena secondary to bronchial asthma play a relevant role in this disease influencing in a remarkable way its clinical course in each patient. Thus, an appropriate knowledge of the reactive and adjustment phenomena may lead to an outstanding medical outcome in response to the relevant conventional medical treatments usually carried out in these patients. In our present paper diverse psychosological variables involving psychological responders to a chronic disease as bronchial asthma are analysed. Such variables include so important topics as "illness behaviour", "life style", coping style" and treatment compliance in this very clinical condition.