Touching the lived body in patients with medically unexplained symptoms.How an integration of hands-on bodywork and body awareness in psychotherapy may help people with alexithymia.

Touching the lived body in patients with medically unexplained symptoms.How an integration of hands-on bodywork and body awareness in psychotherapy may help people with alexithymia.

Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are a considerable presenting problem in general practice. Alexithymia and difficulties with mental elaboration of bodily arousal are hypothesized as a key mechanism in MUS. In turn, this inability influences the embodied being and participating of these patients...

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Main Authors: Joeri eCalsius, Jozef eDe Bie, Raf eHertogen, Raf eMeesen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Alexithymia;
medically unexplained symptoms;
touch;
interoception;
body awareness;
psychotherapy;
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00253/full

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