2011, Number 3
How come “nice” people are always ill? an attempt to integrate psychoanalysis with german new medicine
Medina NDE
Language: Spanish
References: 17
Page: 273-309
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ABSTRACT
Research has shown that there are certain personality traits that correlate with chronic stress and disease, such as failed mentalization and the incapability to recognize and communicate our affection, particularly anger. On the other hand, Dr. Rike Hamer has demonstrated that cancer and other endogenous diseases are the result of a psychic conflict suffered in silence. An unexpected non verbalized traumatic experience generates a shock that affects not only the psyche but a specific part of the brain that biologically corresponds to the trauma (observable in simple tomography); the body then responds to such event with cell reproduction (tumors), tissue degeneration (necrosis) or loss of function following specific rules according the embryonic origin of the tissue. This response is implemented by the Autonomous Nervous System and it is by definition unconscious. This knowledge is a new paradigm in the understanding and treatment of disease; however German New Medicine is widely unknown in the academic world. It is my interest not only to spread the knowledge of German New Medicine, but to establish a link between a previously established knowledge –like Psychoanalysis- and a new radical knowledge in medicine –like GNM- but consistent, from my point of view, with psychoanalytic theory. Hamer’s proposal allows us to close the breach between soma and psyche given that German New Medicine explains in detail the neurophysiologic mechanism deployed by the Central Nervous System when the organism is confronted with a threatening situation -real or symbolic-. This paper is an attempt to integrate both knowledge.REFERENCES