Understanding of the Psychosomatic Disorder from the Experience of Physicians

Authors

  • Vera Lucia Pereira Alves
  • Tatiana Gomez Espinha

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v18i1.29853

Keywords:

psychosomatic medicine, physician-patient relations, medical education, qualitative research

Abstract

With the aim of knowing physicians’ experience in the assistance of patients considered by them as psychosomatic, a qualitative and phenomenological research was done with four doctors. As a result, the doctors didn’t report any theoretical-practical formation on the theme, but pointed to a built knowledge based upon their clinical experience, as they understand: the formation of the symptom; the characterization of these patients and the disorders considered psychosomatic and their due treatment. These doctors reflected the same conceptual mosaic found among scientific studies on psychosomatics, which reveal such thematic crossed by the biomedical model’s deterministic thinking. It is concluded that new models are as necessary in the field of medicine as in that of psychosomatics.

Author Biography

Vera Lucia Pereira Alves

Psicóloga. Psicoterapeuta. Dra em Educação pela UNICAMP.

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How to Cite

Pereira Alves, V. L., & Espinha, T. G. (2014). Understanding of the Psychosomatic Disorder from the Experience of Physicians. Interação Em Psicologia, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v18i1.29853

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Research Reports

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