Chronic pain clinics and psychoanalytic theory and practice
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Date publication
juin 2007
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Résumé
A surprising history of conflict, ambiguity, misunderstandings and even missed opportunities has characterised the relationship between the body and psychoanalysis. Is the body relevant to psychoanalysis? Is the body the object of psychoanalysis? Can psychoanalysis do anything for the body? How does psychoanalysis define the body? These questions are all irrelevant if the body is indeed a full-fledged component of psychoanalytic theory and practice. This reality is particularly evident in chronic pain clinics, where care is based on systematic, multifaceted treatments led by anaesthesiologists, psychoanalysts and chemists/pharmacists who take a multidisciplinary approach that raises fundamental questions about the psychotherapeutic aspects of each course of treatment. The potential of the clinic to heal or alleviate disorders confirm the basic tenet of Freud's theory that phantasm is fundamentally built around a basic relationship with the body.
Référence
Psycho-oncologie. 2007 Jun;1(2):88-92.