2023-05-29 11:12:42
In 1984, Jean Benjamin Stora, psychoanalyst and psychosomatician, joined Pierre Marty, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, at the Institute of Psychosomatics (Ipso) of which the latter was the co-founder. J. B. Stora worked alongside him until his death in 1993. His original approach to psychosomatics inspired by psychoanalysis, like that of Sandor Ferenczi, Hungarian neurologist and psychoanalyst, have been endless sources of inspiration for Stora. However, these models do not answer his many questions. “In my consultation at the Pitié Salpêtrière hospital, created on the death of Pierre Marty, I found, to my great surprise, that Pierre Marty’s concepts did not apply to the patients I was investigating. . I was in the presence of human beings without imagination, without associative capacities, without oneiric life, without infantile neurosis, and without introjection of the maternal object, which was surprising for a classical psychoanalyst. For me, it was quite obvious that the reasons for the non-development of the psychic system had to be discovered. So I thought regarding the following question: how does a psychic system develop in human beings? “
Towards a new discipline
Psychoanalysis alone cannot give meaning to somatisations, Jean Benjamin Stora seeks answers in the relationship between psychoanalysis, medicine and neuroscience, with the aim of developing psychosomatic therapies more suited to patients. Forty years of research have resulted in what he calls the “Alpha of metapsychology”. This model questions the “how mental representations arise in a human being from sensory and motor perceptions in order to contribute to the development of the psychic system “.
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Let the emotions flow
Life not being a long calm river, our psycho-neural system can be weakened by painful and traumatic events (mourning, separations, violence, unemployment, etc.) expressed by violent somatic disorders. Repressing your emotions is in no way a way to protect yourself. ; a day will come when the buried emotions will express themselves through the psycho-neuronal system with negative repercussions at the psychic and physical level.
The psycho-neuronal system participates in all diseases
The psychic, central nervous, autonomic nervous, immune and genetic systems are constantly interacting systems. The balance of the synergy of these systems is fundamental for the physical and mental well-being of the human being. JB Stora explains that the psycho-neuronal system participates, without however being the cause, in all illnesses. According to this approach – called integrative psychosomatics –, “the human being is a psychosomatic unit “and all disorders and diseases would be psychosomatic.
The psycho-neural system which developed during the first years of life and which links everyday life to emotions and behaviors is supposed to protect us from stress and other excitations and help us maintain our health. Trained psychosomaticians help patients “repair their mental defense system or restore an overall balance: mental and immune defenses “. The detail of the model developed by JB Stora calls on the knowledge acquired over the last decades in biology and neuroscience. The integrative psychosomatic approach combines the expertise of doctors and psychosomaticians.
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