Derzelle Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria

The Impeded Thought
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-319-03053-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 121 Seiten

Reihe: Medicine

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Derzelle, Martine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

MARTINE DERZELLE, a psychologist and psychoanalyst, works in Reims, France, in the Pain Management Service of the Jean Godinot Cancer Institute; she is also one of the teachers in charge of the Specialization Degrees (D.U.) in Pain Management and Palliative Care at the Reims School of Medicine.