Oú en est la psychosomatique en 2005?

Abstract

In 2005, the understanding of psychosomatic phenomena is based on new knowledge about the functioning of the body and the psyche. Neurobiologists put forward the notion of a proto sense of the Self, common to all living beings, who have to preserve their structural identity in a changing environment. Psychoanalysts understand better the structuring of the psyche by means of the first others, physical urges, and the relationship to the environment. From conversion disorder to the psychic dimension of the development of so-called organic illnesses, somatisation can be understood on the basis of the fixing of affectivity in the body, the diversion of the unrepresentable to the body, and health as a bio-psycho-social balance of which psychoanalytical therapies are a part, via the construction of meaning concerning the psychic issues. © L'Esprit du Temps. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.