Clinical and psychological models of pathological skin sensations

Ermusheva A. A.

The complexity of empirical study of psychological mechanisms of pathological bodily sensations is associated with attention to particular aspects of this pathology in different approaches: clinical-descriptive, psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral, and psychology of corporeality. The interest of clinicians in the subjective nature of patients’ complaints and the need to find a link between various psychological aspects form the topicality of continuing to research the problem. The study of mediation of pathological skin sensations in psychodermatological disorders seems promising, as it makes possible to take into account the ideas on the individualisation and the meaning of bodily experience in psychology of corporeality, the role of insufficient ability to effectively process painful experience using symbolic and language means in psychoanalysis and the participation of cognitive processes in the experience of pathological bodily sensations in cognitive-behavioral approach.

Keywords:pathological bodily sensations, medically unexplained symptoms, psychodermatological disorders, psychology of corporeality