Character Defenses and Biofeedback: The Problems of Symptom Chronicity and Symptom Removal

One aspect of biofeedback treatment with chronically incapacitated persons concerns their resistance to getting better. In effect, the removal of their symptom is equivalent to undercutting a characteristic way of relating to themselves and to the world, and hence, is opposed. Even though many biofe...

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Published in:Psychotherapy and psychosomatics 1976, Vol.27 (3/6), p.205-209
Main Authors: Armstrong, Stephen H., Hendrix, E. Mitchell
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Biofeedback, Psychology
Chronic Disease
Depression - etiology
Depression - therapy
Headache - etiology
Headache - therapy
Humans
Kidney Transplantation
Male
Psychotherapy
Renal Dialysis
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Summary:One aspect of biofeedback treatment with chronically incapacitated persons concerns their resistance to getting better. In effect, the removal of their symptom is equivalent to undercutting a characteristic way of relating to themselves and to the world, and hence, is opposed. Even though many biofeedback procedures are impressively effective, the therapist must watch for another symptom reemerging in the place of the older somatic complaint, or for psychologically regressive attempts to preserve one's character defenses.
ISSN:0033-3190
1423-0348
DOI:10.1159/000287020