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Patients' fantasies about physical illness
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
|January 1, 1983
Abstract:
All patients with physical illness have an underlying fantasy concerning why they became sick. This fantasy can be elicited by the consulting psychiatrist and the treating physician. The meaning of the fantasy is consistent with the psychodynamic theory of human behavior. Also, once the fantasy is understood, it can be applied in the patient's therapy.