Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria: The Impeded Thought

By Martine Derzelle

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319379763
• ISBN13: 9783319379760
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"