Psychosomatics: A Reinterpretation through the Lens of the Person-centered Approach on Unelaborated Emotions That Become Symptoms
Alaide Vitória Cardoso Garcia
Affiliation: University of Amazon, Belém, Brazil
Keywords: Psychosomatics, Illness, Carl Rogers, Person-centered therapy, Emotions
Categories: Medicine
DOI: 10.17160/josha.11.4.990
Languages: Portuguese
The present work aims to discuss how the lack of elaboration of emotions can become a symptom and present itself in the form of pathology. A dialogue was initiated about the process of psychosomatic illness through the lens of the person-centered approach. For this purpose, a bibliographical review of the work “Becoming a Person” by Carl Rogers was used as a methodology, in order to investigate the relationship between the lack of elaboration of emotions and psychosomatic illness. Person-Centered Therapy is a great tool for understanding and elaborating symptoms in the treatment of people affected by psycho-emotional illnesses.