Retrospective analysis of emotional experiences as a component of psychosomatic illness

• Main Author: Kompanovych M. S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University 2018-03-01
• Series: Психологічне консультування i психотерапія
• Online Access: https://periodicals.karazin.ua/psychotherapy/article/view/10446/10017

Different theories and concepts that cover the inclusion of emotional experiences in the emergence and course of psychosomatic diseases are analyzed. The common and distinctive features in scientific and practical approaches revealing the nature of psychosomatic diseases are revealed. Also, the causes of the occurrence of psychosomatic diseases at different stages of life, with an appeal to the early, unconscious experience, are considered. The causative, derivative and accompanying phenomena, which are in the continuum of psychosomatic diseases (alexithymia, stress-induced, depressive, conversion).