[The role of sexual trauma as a cause of orofacial symptoms. Case report].
Authors describe a 58-sitting psychotherapy of a 46-year-old female patient with psychogenic atypical facial pain. Sexual trauma in the childhood was found as a cause of the psychogenic pain symptoms, leading to series of unnecessary extraction of teeth in this case. Psychotherapeutic treatment led to the recovery of the somatic symptoms, and a moderate improvement of the behaviour related to men of this patient.
Kaán
Borbála
B
Semmelweis Egyetem, Fogpótlástani Klinika, Budapest.
Tóth
Zsuzsanna
Z
Fábián
Tibor Károly
TK
D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy / Q000379:methods; D003729:Dental Care / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012747:Sexual Partners; D014098:Toothache / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome