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Psychosomatic Symptoms in Adolescence
Medical Clinics of North America, 1990This article provides the physician with an efficient and comprehensive method for the evaluation and management of adolescent psychosomatic symptoms in the medical care setting. The physician should make a firm statement of the nonorganic nature of the psychosomatic symptom, identify significant stressors, and provide strong recommendations for ...
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Transgenerational Psychosomatic Respiratory Symptoms
Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 1991We present the case of a family in which three successive generations suffer from similar psychosomatic respiratory symptoms. These symptoms function to modulate chronic anxiety in the family due to conflicts regarding separation-individuation and threats to the equilibrium of the family system.
Micheal R. Freedman +2 more
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Managing psychosomatic symptoms
The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, 2016Our bodies manifest emotions physically when we cannot effectively express them. This occurs frequently in youth, who have less developed verbal abilities and fewer coping strategies to manage distress. With psychosomatic symptoms, body parts are functional, but messages are transmitted incorrectly.
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Prevalence of Psychosomatic Symptoms in Children
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 1991Somatic symptoms reflecting psychic components were recorded in connection with the Finnish National Epidemiological Study of Psychiatric Disorders. In the present work, according to the parents' concerns, frequent headache was found in 2.8%, recurrent abdominal pain in 2.4%, asthma in 0.7%, enuresis in 1.5% and soiling in 0.3% of the children ...
S L, Linna +4 more
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The structure of psychosomatic symptoms
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 19831. According to our findings, a psychosomatic structure is not an alternative to neurosis. The syndrome of alexithymia appears to be, in our cases, a transitional phase, the dynamics of which can be understood and treated by psychotherapy. In the course of psychotherapeutic treatment, alexithymia always disappears. 2.
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[Psychosomatic dermatologic symptoms].
Orvosi hetilap, 2000The explanations of the psychosomatic dermatological symptoms are based on the dysfunction of the emotional and autonomic nervous system. In the first instance the dermatological symptoms of psychic origin are examined by the general practitioner, than the dermatologist and finally after negative findings--the psychiatrist.
M, Moretti, G, Varga
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Sexual Symptoms in Endocrine Diseases: Psychosomatic Perspectives
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2007<i>Background:</i> Not only the most frequent causes of endocrine sexual dysfunction, such as hypogonadism and hyperprolactinemia, but almost all extragonadal endocrinopathies (hyper- and hypothyroidism, hyper- and hypocortisolism, steroidal secreting tumors, etc.) may have a greater or lesser effect on sexual function. <i>Methods:<
Giancarlo Balercia +5 more
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Psychodynamic Mechanisms in Psychosomatic Symptom Formation
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 1974What appears to me as fundamental in the genesis of the psychosomatic symptom is that this genesis is linked to an original psychic structure totally opposed to that of the neuroses. This structure is characterized by a deficiency, more or less marked, of the phantasmic activities which no longer, or very imperfectly, fulfil their functions of ...
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Psychodynamics and psychosomatic symptoms
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1959T HE TERM "psychosomatic" is a clinical, descriptive one which refers to the appearance of physical symptoms in relation to emotional states or mental activity. From a dynamic viewpoint it seems grossly inadequate. In the first place, it indicates little about the particular patient before us in analysis.
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