Abstract
Under what physiological and psychosocial conditions does an individual with a certain biological-genetic and psychic endowment develop what kind of disorder that under what conditions rapidly disappears, or runs a course of crises, or becomes chronic? This fundamental question of modern psychosomatics makes 2 points clear that characterize the present position: 1. disposition, triggering and course, not only psychosocially but in constantly reinformed mass call attention to somatic influences. In the background of these considerations 2 quite differing lines of development of psychoanalytical psychosomatics are followed that - proceeding from Freud's models of conversion and anxiety neurosis (1895) - have resisted controversy up to today. In this respect the contributions of Alexander, Engel and Schmale, Ruesch and the French school are referred to and critically discussed in their conceptual formation.
| Translated title of the contribution | Psychoanalytic concepts of psychosomatic symptom formation |
|---|---|
| Original language | German |
| Pages (from-to) | 512-518 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Nervenarzt |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| State | Published - 1980 |
| Externally published | Yes |
