TY - JOUR AU - Vaskivska, Світлана PY - 2021/06/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Working technology with psychosomatic symptoms and conversion disorder in psychotherapy and counseling JF - Psychosomatic Medicine and General Practice JA - PMGP VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.26766/pmgp.v6i2.292 UR - https://e-medjournal.com/index.php/psp/article/view/292 SP - e0602292 AB - <p><strong>Background.</strong> Overcoming accusations of unproven soul-body connection can be demonstrated by a streamlined system of unloading the psychological layers behind the physical symptom.</p><p><strong>Purpose of the article.</strong> To structure in detail and algorithmize psychological work with psychosomatic symptoms and conversion disorder, and to present it in the form of a well-thought-out and proven technological process</p><p><strong>Results. </strong>The subject of technological influence in psychotherapeutic work with a conversion symptom is the body - as an area of the unconscious, represented by a dream process (A. Mindel "Dreaming body"). The hidden "logic" of conversion can be established by working with three systems of representative experience - proprioceptive, iconic, and symbolic (J. Sandler, J. Bastiaans, G. Murphy).</p><p>In Technological means of work with the psychosomatic symptom, such working technologies are 1) Tracking illness technologies; 2) Technologies for finding the trigger of psychosomatic disorder; 3) Technologies for the formation of conditions for access to processes in the body; 4) Technologies of conscious communication with the body; 5) Processing technologies; 6) Technologies of transition to the symbolic level of reading and elaboration of representatives of experience. The tools for working with the physical, emotional, and symbolic-figurative components of the experience of psychosomatic disorders are offered. A standardized algorithm of psychological elaboration of the conversion symptom, objectification of its hidden content is presented.</p><p><strong>Conclusion.</strong> The findings provide practical guidance for a psychotherapist working with conversion and psychosomatic disorders.</p> ER -