[Deglutition anxiety. Consideration of symptoms and psychodynamics of heart phobia].
Fear of swallowing as an accessory symptom or symptomatical precursor of heart-phobic development is pointed out along two short casuistic reports. In highly regressive states fearful inhibition of the act of swallowing proper occurred in relation to food and even own saliva. The symptom is discussed before the background of separation conflicts and pathological internalization processes with confusion of self- and object-representations in heart-phobic patients. The author argues that an understanding of this symptom provides insight into the--inspite of phobic phenomenology--essentially hypochondriac psychodynamics of heart-phobic patients with narcissistic traits in particular.
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D000328:Adult; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009449:Neurocirculatory Asthenia / Q000523:psychology*; D009769:Object Attachment; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012803:Sick Role
Schluckangst. Uberlegungen zur Symptomatik und Psychodynamik der Herzphobie.