Investigação daseinsanalítica acerca do transtorno de sintoma somático

Abstract

Somatic symptom disorder has been treated as a phenomenon associated with other comorbidities since 1980, when it was first cataloged by the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). This disorder is seen by traditional medicine and psychology as a physical expression of somatic symptoms that generate suffering and interfere with daily life. Those who suffer somatically are seen as someone who is hypervigilant to bodily stimuli and who misinterprets these stimuli. Despite attempts, this disorder remains with little progress in its scientific understanding. This work aims to present another possible understanding for somatic symptom disorder. To this end, it uses Alice Holzhey-Kunz's daseinsanalytic method to address bodily suffering, the physicality of the body, and its relationship with psychological suffering. After presenting Holzhey-Kunz's Daseinanalysis and its understanding of existential corporeality, this paper explores the possible affective tones related to the existential that reveal the ontological truth hidden in the ontic experience of those who suffer bodily, with somatic symptom disorder. Starting from the conception that there is a shared phenomenology in somatic experience.