Within the last decades the symptom pictures of psychological disturbances have changed in characteristic fashion—as though patients had been yielding to a tendency toward symptom formation, with a view toward inconspicuousness and anonymity. Apart from diffuse, developmentally early disturbances involving structural dedifferentiation and prepsychotic states, narcissistic character states and psychosomatic conditions (e.g., cardiac neurosis) are common. In these pathological arrangements one may note an "impoverishment of expression" as a consequence of the altered conditions of life, education, and work; that is, of the transition to a relatively "unpsychological" phase of societal development which has been termed "postindividualistic" by certain authors.