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.
Autorentext
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.
Zusammenfassung
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.
Inhalt
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.