Citation

Deyon D, Souffir V. Revue Francaise de Psychosomatique 2002; 22(2): 21-38.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002)

DOI

10.3917/rfps.022.0021

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The evolution of a treatment in a day hospital of a hypochondriacal patient having presented two serious states with suicide attempts shows how hypochondria can be considered as a passage between different pathological states and constitutes a stopping point preventing deeper disorganization. Losses, the importance of which had been defensively denied by the patient, came up and reactivated a traumatic personal history. In this case, it seemed to us that narcissistic support, fundamentally respecting the patient'state, within a psychiatric treatment tending towards psychotherapy, was able to bring dynamism to a pathological condition usually perceived as not very able to evolve.

Language: fr

Keywords

Hypochondria; Masochism; Melancholia; Narcissism; Persecution; Psychopathy; Trauma