Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria electronic resource The Impeded Thought / by Martine Derzelle.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014Description: XII, 121 p. 4 illus. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319030531Subject(s): medicine | Internal medicine | Gastroenterology | Pain Medicine | Psychiatry | Psychotherapy | psychoanalysis | Medicine & Public Health | Psychiatry | Psychotherapy | Psychoanalysis | Internal Medicine | Gastroenterology | Pain MedicineDDC classification: 616.89 LOC classification: RC434.2-574Online resources: Click here to access onlineQuestions -- Problems -- Problem Definition -- Negative Reports or “a Certain Discourse Used in a Certain Way” -- From Biological Body to Metaphorical Body -- A New Starting Point -- Hypochondria, Projective Parenthesis -- A Different Relation to Oneself and to the Other Person -- Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria.
A rigorous and groundbreaking study. Martine Derzelle is the first researcher to approach hypochondria as a relational pathology. Martine Derzelle is the first researcher to approach hypochondria as a relational pathology. The author tackles a subject that has puzzled care professionals for decades: hypochondria. Martine Derzelle confronts all specialists (psychotherapists, psychiatrists, doctors, psychosomaticians) with the paradox of this pathology and the theoretical void on which the approach to those patients who express a suffering of various kinds has stood for more than a century. In the first part, the author highlights the lack of theoretical elaboration on hypochondria in the existent literature; in the second part, on the basis of clinical examples, she analyzes the nature of the disease, and then offers a completely innovative theoretical elaboration. Finally, in the third part, she proposes a new and specific approach to treating this pathology at both the theoretical and clinical levels within the framework of psychoanalysis and implementing key concepts from relational psychosomatics.
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