Derzelle, Martine.

Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria The Impeded Thought / [electronic resource] : by Martine Derzelle. - XII, 121 p. 4 illus. online resource.

Questions -- 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.

9783319030531

10.1007/978-3-319-03053-1 doi


Medicine.
Internal medicine.
Gastroenterology.
Pain Medicine.
Psychiatry.
Psychotherapy.
Psychoanalysis.
Medicine & Public Health.
Psychiatry.
Psychotherapy.
Psychoanalysis.
Internal Medicine.
Gastroenterology.
Pain Medicine.

RC434.2-574

616.89

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