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- The first book focused on the clinical and theoretical aspects of hypochondria
- Provides a possibility of therapeutic measures
- A new approach to hypochondria based on general epistemology, Freudian epistemology, and on a new conceptualization centered around the "deadlock"
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Obliged Thought
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institut Jean Godinot, Reims, France
Martine Derzelle
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria
Book Subtitle: The Impeded Thought
Authors: Martine Derzelle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03053-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03052-4Published: 09 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37976-0Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03053-1Published: 26 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 121
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Pain Medicine