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Psychosomatic Symptoms: Psychodynamic Treatment of the Underlying Personality Disorder

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Patients with psychosomatic diseases lack the capacity for emotional connection and symbolic thinking and the physical symptoms of asthma, anorexia nervosa and ulcerative colitis have been outside our domain. In this volume, Philip Wilson and his collaborators illuminate the lives of these patients and provide the linking "red thread" by identifying the underlying personality disorder. They reveal that behind the pseudo normal development is a world of primitive emotions and fantasies, archaic guilt and magical thinking. ...

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Psychosomatic Symptoms: Psychodynamic Treatment of the Underlying Personality Disorder 1977, Jason Aronson

ISBN-13: 9780876688779

Hardcover