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Objective. The assessment of a psychological profile and a level of social adaptation among patients with HIV infection in the penitentiary system.Materials and methods. Randomly selected HIV-infected prisoners (n=41) from Novosibirsk prisons have passed in-depth interviews and survey on several questionnaires, based on different methods (questionnaires on assessing some social and medical indicators, a questionnaire on the TOBOL system — a clinical testing method, aimed at diagnosing a type of attitude to the disease. The test on 13 kinds of addiction by G. V. Lozova’s system and the test on identifying locus-control by G. Potter method are also included in the questionnaire.Results and discussion. The survey results showed that it is characteristic for a significant proportion of the examined patients to have a risky sexual behaviour, posing a risk of infecting a partner with HIV. It was stated that most of the tested have the dominance of anosognosic and ergopathetic type of attitude to the disease; there is tendency in developing some forms of chemical and non-chemical addiction and diagnosed prevalence of internal locus of control.

Objective. To study the occurrence of neurological disorders and social masochism in patients with chemical addiction. Materials and methods. A total of 30 patients were studied in out-patient conditions at the Novosibirsk district clinical drug addiction clinic. Psychometric investigations included a set of scales and questionnaires, along with a social masochism questionnaire developed by the authors. Assessments were performed in comparison with values obtained in a group of 25 healthy subjects. Results and conclusions. Patients with chemical dependence showed significantly higher scores on the neurotic disorders questionnaire for the following groups of psychopathological disorders: hysteria, anxiety, and depression, as well as sleep impairment. Personality and behavioral features characteristics of social masochism were quite marked in chemical addiction (various types of aggression, victimhood, irritability, negativism, experiences of resentment and guilt; self-harming, hypersocial, provocatory, and insight-lacking behavior, perception of occupying the victim role, negative perceptions of the environment). High general levels of social masochism were also typical. A link was found between measures of the affective domain and signs of social masochism and neurotic disorders.

To study symptoms of neurotic disorders and social masochism in chemical addicts.Thirty outpatients of the Novosibirsk Regional Clinical Addiction Dispensary were studied. Corresponding scales and questionnaires, along with a social masochism questionnaire developed by the authors, were used. Results were compared to those of 25 healthy people.A significantly higher level (Изучение проявлений невротических расстройств и социального мазохизма у больных, страдающих химической аддикцией.Обследовали 30 пациентов, наблюдающихся амбулаторно в Новосибирском областном клиническом наркологическом диспансере. Было выполнено психометрическое исследование с применением комплекса шкал, опросников, а также разработанной авторами анкеты социального мазохизма. Оценку по ним проводили в сравнении с показателями, полученными в группе 25 здоровых людей.У лиц с химической зависимостью выявлен достоверно более высокий балл по опроснику невротических расстройств для следующих групп психопатологических расстройств: истерия, тревога, депрессия, а также нарушения сна. Достаточно выраженными при химической аддикции были свойственные социальному мазохизму особенности личности и поведения (разные виды агрессии, виктимность, раздражительность, негативизм, переживания обиды и вины; самоповреждающее, гиперсоциальное, провоцирующее и некритичное поведение, ощущение роли жертвы, негативное восприятие окружающего). Также был характерен высокий общий показатель социального мазохизма. Выявлена связь между показателями аффективной сферы, проявлениями социального мазохизма и невротическими расстройствами.