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Психосоматика и психоаналитична психотерапия
Psychosomatics and psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Author(s): Rumyana Krumova-Pesheva
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: psychosomatics; psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Summary/Abstract: The psychosomatics is an attempt to understand the dynamic nature of the human being, the relationship of the person with the surrounding reality, his ties to the world and others, the cultural values and norms of the time he lives in. The psychosomatics review considers the innate and acquired readiness for functional or organic disorder, provoked by heterogeneous life situations as well as by the psychic and organic personal predisposition to reaction. Diagnostic assessment is based on a number of factors united in the complex view of the bio-psychosocial approach. The purpose of the present study is to present an overview of some of the underlying theories and ideas in the field of psychosomatic medicine and psychology through the prism of the psychoanalytic paradigm and of the clinical practice itself. What is of significant importance is the interaction between the psychic and the somatic towards different influences and hypotheses in direct and inverse dependence - the effects of the psychogenic factors on the somatic status and the influence of the somatic disease on the psyche. Psychological counseling and psychoanalytic psychotherapy validate some of the assumptions presented, but at the same time they also attempt to challenge some of them.