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Psychoanalytic of Hypochondriasis
Freud was the earliest proponent of the theory that hypochondriasis was the result of sexual drives. He originally stated that the sexual libido, when withdrawn from external objects, would be redirected to the self in the form of narcissistic libido. Eventually, the narcissistic libido ‘‘overflows,’’ and the resulting energy is transformed into physical symptoms. Brown […]
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Psychoanalytic of Conversion Disorder
Psychoanalytic of Conversion Disorder Although psychoanalytic formulations have undergone considerable revision over the years, a series of papers on an integrated theory of conversion written in the late nineteenth century by Freudcontinues to influence thinking about conversion disorder. He stated that a conversion symptom is usually associated with a passive sexual seduction that typically […]
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