Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria: The Impeded Thought (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319030524)

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.

Author: Martine Derzelle
ISBN-10: 3319030523
ISBN-13: 9783319030524
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2013
Pages: 121
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d