Marli Rodrigues de Oliveira
Student of Psychology at Faculdades Doctum - Serra
Unit (ES). E-mail: marli.olv@hotmail.com.
Sérgio Rodrigues de Souza
Psychoanalyst. Post-Doctorate in Social Psychology.
E-mail: srgrodriguesdesouza@gmail.com.
ABSTRACT
This article addresses the topic of 'psychogenic pain disorder'. Its
scientific relevance lies in the fact that it sheds light on this type of pain
that apparently has completely psychological symptoms and that, for this
reason, ends up being treated by doctors as false or virtual in nature, which
is not justified because those who suffer from this illness experience very
real sensations of pain. Its social relevance lies in the aspect of presenting
the population with scientific elements that clarify that not every type of
pain that cannot be diagnosed by a doctor is unreal and, in doing so, attempts
to denigrate the person of the patient. This is a bibliographical , factual
research, based on classical studies and authors on the subject. The objective
is to deepen the studies on this type of personal suffering that affects a good
portion of the population. Psychogenic pain can be defined as a painful
sensation that has no organic basis. It is any pain of entirely mental origin,
and that is fixed in a part of the anatomy. There is an approach to the
understanding that psychogenic pain disorder is not a disease, a priori;
rather, a warning regarding an unprecedented psychological conflict, the
existence and persistence of which are unbearable to the individual, and,
strangely, its clarification turns into a disease, because it reveals the
presence of an etiological agent. Many studies still need to be carried out,
with the aim of clarifying how human thought works and what mechanisms it uses
to preserve and maintain the psychic economy, sometimes using subterfuges such
as the mnemonic suppression of events that the individual could not bear in a
conventional way; however, there comes a time when the brain demands the
reestablishment of the order broken by the situation to be discovered, because
it was suppressed for the sake of the patient's well-being.
Keywords: Psychogenic pain disorder. Mental disorders. Psychoanalysis.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
dezembro 27, 2024
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