Somatoform and other psychosomatic disorders : a dialogue between contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy perspectives /: a dialogue between contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy perspectives. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christos Charis, Georgia Panayioutou, editors.
• Editors: Charis, Christos; Panayiotou, Georgia
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Maintaining Mechanisms of Health Anxiety: Current State of Knowledge; Prevalence and Demographic Characteristics; Impact; The Cognitive-Behavioral Conceptualization of Health Anxiety; A Brief Overview of Developmental and Predispositional Factors; Maintenance Mechanisms; Cognitive Mechanisms; Physiological Mechanisms; Affective Mechanisms; Behavioral Mechanisms; A Buffering Mechanism; Overview of Behavioral and Cognitive Approaches in Therapy; Summary; References; Chapter 2: Somatoform Disorders from Psychodynamic Point of View; Introduction. Definition of Somatoform DisordersEpidemiology; Classification; How Do We Explain Somatoform Disorders Today?; Biological Aspects; Psychological Risk Factors; Psychodynamic Models That Explain Somatoform Disorders; "Narcissistic Mechanism"; "Affect Equivalents"; Schur's Theory of Psychosomatic Symptoms; Rudolf's and Henningsen's Theory of Somatoform Disorders; Diagnostic Issues; How Do We Proceed in Practice?; Summarising the Aims of the Diagnostic Procedure; Therapy; What Is the Transference Like with Somatoform Patients?; References. Chapter 3: Functional (Medically Unexplained) Physical Syndromes/Symptoms: The Cognitive Behavioral PerspectiveCognitive Behavioral Models for Functional Physical Syndromes/Symptoms; The Basic CB Models for FPS/S; Brown's Integrative Conceptual Model for FPS/S; Other CB Models Focusing on the Perception Process and Memory; A Transdiagnostic/Problem-Specific Approach; The Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation in Illness; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Functional Physical Syndromes/Symptoms; Looper and Kirmayer's Intervention Approach; A Hybrid Transdiagnostic/Problem-Specific Approach. Reattribution TechniquesSynthesis and Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Negative Affect and Medically Unexplained Symptoms; Biased Symptom Perception: Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS); Association Between MUS and Negative Affect; How Negative Affect Leads to MUS: Proposed Mechanisms; Summary; Future Research Directions; Some Implications of Investigating Emotional Influences in MUS; References; Chapter 5: Alexithymia as a Core Trait in Psychosomatic and Other Psychological Disorders; Research Findings from Our Laboratory; Concluding Comments; References. Chapter 6: Trauma and Its Consequences for the Body and MindIntroduction; The Concept of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); The Phenomenology of Trauma and the Difficulties to Define It Psychoanalytically; Psychoanalytic Models of the Trauma; Traumatic Memories; Some Problems in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Traumatized Patients; References; Chapter 7: Embodiment: A New Key to the Unconscious?; Introduction; "Embodied" Countertransference Reactions: Keys to the Nonrepresented Trauma?; Enactment and Countertransference Reactions in an Assessment Interview: A Clinical Example.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 616.8524; Psychology; Somatoform disorders; Medicine, Psychosomatic; Psychotherapy; Cognitive therapy; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Cognitive therapy; Medicine, Psychosomatic; Psychotherapy; Somatoform disorders; Medical -- Psychiatry -- General; Psychology -- Psychotherapy -- General; Psychology -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis; Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychology, clinical; Psychiatry; Applied psychology; Psychoanalysis; Psychology -- Applied Psychology; Health psychology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319893600; 3319893602
• Related ISBNs: 9783319893594; 3319893599
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 26, 2018).
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