The bodily experience and the body put to the test by fibromyalgia
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Cite this article
- CASTRO DE SOUZA, Lélia,
- BAUDIN, Marianne
- and PHEULPIN, Marie-Christine,
- Castro de Souza, Lélia.,
- et al.
- Castro de Souza, L.,
- Baudin, M.
- and Pheulpin, M.-C.
https://doi.org/10.3917/pcp.023.0267
Cite this article
- Castro de Souza, L.,
- Baudin, M.
- and Pheulpin, M.-C.
- Castro de Souza, Lélia.,
- et al.
- CASTRO DE SOUZA, Lélia,
- BAUDIN, Marianne
- and PHEULPIN, Marie-Christine,
https://doi.org/10.3917/pcp.023.0267
Patients suffering from fibromyalgia almost always refuse to consider the possible psychic componants of their disease. Using the tat, we can observe the pervasiveness of sensoriality and the expression of body attitudes to indicate the affects which cannot otherwise be expressed. In fibroyalgia, the painful, suffering body is put front and center. The sensory envelope seems to function like a psychic skin, able to contain anxiety and restore something of the feeling of self and the continuity of existance. It also seems to reiterate the appeal for help from an object which remains out of reach. Fatigue, considered here as a form of depression, seems to find its melancholic componant in the pain which is experienced.
Keywords
- Fibromyalgia
- tat
- Sensoriality
- Pain
- Depression
Publisher keywords: Depression, Fibromyalgia, Pain, Sensoriality, tat