Explicit incestuous motifs and emotional crises in psychosomatic patients.
This paper examines the emergence of incestuous motifs in the first four interviews of 50 people seeking psychotherapy. Results show a percentage (6%) which is neither relevant nor specific for any kind of diagnosis. The progress in psychotherapy of two groups of 8 patients, psychosomatic + neurotic respectively, is then compared with regard to the same motifs. All the patients underwent psychoanalytic psychotherapy twice a week for at least 2 years, between 1979 and 1982. Among the patients treated with psychotherapy, the psychosomatic subjects proved to have the weaker defense mechanisms. Most of these patients (87.5%) showed a tendency to act specific emotions through temporary exacerbations of their organic disease.
D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D012803:Sick Role; D014167:Transference, Psychology