Los idiomas del cuerpo: Un estudio de caso sobre una paciente con epilepsia bifocal fármacorresistente

Abstract

The author of this paper builds a theoretical and clinical case study, based on a patient presenting with drug resistant bifocal epilepsy, detectable by EEG, that alternates with epileptic pseudoseizures (hystero-epilepsy) that rises the question on one side, about the high percentage (30%) of drug-resistant epileptic patients and its relationship with psychosomatic disorders; and, on the other, the combination of two levels of psychic functioning with the same patient: a non-neurotic narcissist (epilepsy as a psychosomatic disorder) and a functioning neurotic hysterical conversive operation (the pseudoseizures). The importance of this work lies in the increased consultation of patients with non-neurotic narcissistic disorders, among which are psychosomatic disorders, as well as the hard-to-handle (and high percentage of) refractory epilepsy patients, that have presented an unresolved challenge to Neurology and Psychiatry and where the psychoanalytic clinic has the knowledge to contribute.