Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria : The Impeded Thought Hardback
by Martine Derzelle
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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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- Pages:121 pages, 4 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 121 p. 4 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:09/12/2013
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- ISBN:9783319030524
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:121 pages, 4 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 121 p. 4 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:09/12/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9783319030524