Chronic somatoform pain disorder is a kind of somatoform disorder in which the leading complaint is the constant, heavy and mentally oppressive pain in any area of ​​the body that lasts more than 6 months and can not be fully explained by a physiological process or somatic disorder. It appears in conjunction with emotional conflict or [...]

Hypochondriacal disorder – one of the most private of psychopathological phenomena, the main feature of which is the constant concern over the possibility of disease in one more heavy and progressive somatic disorder. In contrast with patients with somatisation and undifferentiated somatoform disorders, patients with hypochondriasis are not only burdened by somatic discomfort, but are [...]

As there is a huge diversity of the phenomena referred to as organ-neurotic symptoms, it is meaningless any general statement about the effectiveness of psychoanalytic treatment of such diseases. There are states that have become so “organic” that requires immediate “somatic” treatment. But whenever the symptoms are a consequence of stable unconscious attitudes, psychoanalysis is shown for [...]