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[Subjective body experience in hypochondria and somatoform disorders]
Abstract:
Limitations and difficulties of clinical characteristics of mental disorders, manifesting in symptoms of body sphere, are described. The conceptions of body and subjective body experience, assuming that body sensations are involved in self-identification and self-ego formation and connected with cognitive, social and cultural aspects of subjective experience, are discussed. To evaluate phenomenological, biographical, psychodynamic, cognitive and socio-cultural context of body sensations appearance in somatoform mental disorders, the multi-axial model of subjective body experience description is suggested.
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