title: From traumatic attachment to somatization disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper emphasizes attachment trauma as an important etiological factor in somatization disorder and psychoanalytic psychotherapy as an effective treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Weekly psychotherapy with an 18 year old with somatization disorder, using the Conversational Model, is described.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Early cumulative trauma has far-reaching health consequences. Brief psychotherapy produces symptom relief, and long-term analytic therapy is necessary for sustained improvement.
authors: University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. Jhalibur@Bigpond.Net.Au
authors: Joan
authors: J
authors: Haliburn
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000379:methods*; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*