Martine Derzelle

Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria

The Impeded Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 86325896
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 321g
• ISBN-13: 9783319030524
• ISBN-10: 3319030523
• Artikelnr.: 39581238

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.