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Tempo psicanalitico

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Abstract

GARZA, Carlos Andrés Mesa. Los idiomas del cuerpo: un estudio de caso sobre una paciente con epilepsia bifocal fármacorresistente. Tempo psicanal. [online]. 2016, vol.48, n.2, pp. 78-94. ISSN 0101-4838.

The author of this paper builds a theoretical and clinical case study, based on a patient presenting with drug resistant bifocal epilepsy, detectable by EEG, that alternates with epileptic pseudoseizures (hystero-epilepsy) that rises the question on one side, about the high percentage (30%) of drug-resistant epileptic patients and its relationship with psychosomatic disorders; and, on the other, the combination of two levels of psychic functioning with the same patient: a non-neurotic narcissist (epilepsy as a psychosomatic disorder) and a functioning neurotic hysterical conversive operation (the pseudoseizures). The importance of this work lies in the increased consultation of patients with non-neurotic narcissistic disorders, among which are psychosomatic disorders, as well as the hard-to-handle (and high percentage of) refractory epilepsy patients, that have presented an unresolved challenge to Neurology and Psychiatry and where the psychoanalytic clinic has the knowledge to contribute.

Keywords : Epilepsy; seizures; psychosomatic disorders; hystero-epilepsy; pseudoseizures; psychoanalysis; psychotherapy; psychiatry; neurology.

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