Haliburn Joan
University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Australas Psychiatry. 2011 Oct;19(5):401-5. doi: 10.3109/10398562.2011.608129.
This paper emphasizes attachment trauma as an important etiological factor in somatization disorder and psychoanalytic psychotherapy as an effective treatment.
Weekly psychotherapy with an 18 year old with somatization disorder, using the Conversational Model, is described.
Early cumulative trauma has far-reaching health consequences. Brief psychotherapy produces symptom relief, and long-term analytic therapy is necessary for sustained improvement.
