Clinical Psychology of Corporeality: Principles of Cultural-Historical Subject Analysis

Abstract

The psychology of corporeality is a new and intensively elaborated branch of science. The theoretical foundations of its subject differ significantly from those of medical psychosomatics. In a given article some new concepts of this approaching discipline are introduced and the role of symbolic mediation in genesis of different psychosomatic diseases is discussed.

Keywords

• psychology of corporeality
• psychosomatics
• psychosomatic development
• psychosomatic dysontogenesis
• symbolic mediation
• higher psychological processes
• activity
• internal picture of illness
• symptom appearance
• syndromic analysis.