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1 online resource (208 pages) |
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; FOREWORD; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Marie-Laure and metabolic syndrome: relations between the psychic apparatus and the hypothalamic axis; CHAPTER TWO Chloé: repairing the psychic apparatus- neuronal tumour, neuropsychoanalysis, or neuropsychosomatics?; CHAPTER THREE Claude: "The Little Prince's heartache"; CHAPTER FOUR A hypochondriac patient-the enigma of Damien's somatic problems; APPENDIX TO THE CASE Multimorbidity and integrative psychosomatics (Barnett et al., 2012; Salisbury, 2012; Roublev, 2012) |
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CHAPTER FIVE Lucien: type 2 diabetic the patient's cultural dimension, denial of illness and narcissistic problematic; CHAPTER SIX Alicia: "when I've had the transplant, will I feel better?"; CHAPTER SEVEN The heart problems of a "famous patient"; CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX |
| Summary |
Integrative psychosomatics is a new approach to explaining illnesses and how patients relate to their problems. This new discipline draws on psychoanalysis, medicine and the neurosciences, rather than solely on psychoanalysis, which has inspired all the psychosomatic approaches until now. Amongst the fascinating and compelling questions that this book raises are: how can we understand an illness if we only analyse the psyche? How can we understand patients if we only take account of their biological data? Are hypochondriac problems generated by the mind, as some doctors believe, or are the pro |
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Print version record |
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Somatoform disorders.
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Somatoform Disorders
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Somatoform disorders
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
178241374X |
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9781782413745 |
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9781781815069 |
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1781815062 |
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