Keywords
factors of psychosomatic sindromogenesis
Publications
Zinchenko Yu.P., Pervichko E.I. (2012). Syndrome approach to psychology of corporeity (patients with mitral valve prolapse for example). The Moscow University Psychology Bulletin, 2, 57-67
The paper aims to consider a syndrome-based approach in methodology adopted for psychological phenomena in application to corporeity psychology. We present a study case of 290 patients with mitral valve prolapse. We endeavor constructioning of a psychosomatic syndrome, employing techniques for a qualitative and statistical data analysis of longitudinal clinical-psychological study. We bring evidence that the syndrome is of multi-level character, and that its structure is determined by several factors: a motivational factor (with domination of the infavoidance motive and unsatisfied self-approval need), a factor of emotional regulation disorders, and a psychophysiological factor. We argue that it is feasible to use a psychosomatic syndrome as a key method in approaching not only diagnostic but also prognostic problems both in clinical psychology and in medicine.
Pages: 57-67
Keywords: psychosomatic syndrome;
factors of psychosomatic sindromogenesis;
mitral valve prolapse;
emotional tension;
emotional regulation;
infavoidance motive;
self-approval need;
Available Online: 06/30/2012