Skin diseases and secondary symbiosis

Occupation: Leading researcher, Laboratory of psychology of abilities and mental resources named after V.N. Druzhinin
Affiliation: Federal State-financed Establishment of Science, Institute of Psychology RAS
Address: Moscow, Moscow, Yaroslavskaya str., 13, Russia

Journal name

Psikhologicheskii zhurnal

Edition

Volume 41 Issue 2

Pages

69-79

Abstract

The study was conducted within the framework of the psychological separation and symbiosis problem. It was assumed that psychosomatic skin diseases can be considered as a "consequence” of desruption of the primary mother - infant bonding and as a form of secondary symbiosis, through which the compensatory boundary of the Ego is built and identity is determined. An empirical study was conducted on a sample of 72 women aged from 20 to 40 years, Me =37 years (30 healthy women, 17 suffering from psoriasis and 25 suffering from atopic dermatitis) using the I-structure test of G. Ammon (ISTA). It is shown that clinical manifestations and scales of internal and external Self-delineation can be interpreted in the case of atopic dermatitis as a manifestation of a tendency to merge, and in the case of psoriasis - as a tendency to avoid. The study indicates the need for a more differentiated analysis of the external and internal boundaries of the Ego (deficit, destructive and constructive Self-delineations) and related psychological problems associated with different nosological groups of skin diseases.

Keywords

Scales of external and internal Self-delineations, G. Ammon test (ISTA), primary and secondary symbiosis, separation, skin, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, ego boundary

Acknowledgment

The study was performed on state assignment No. 015920200008

Received

21.02.2020

Publication date

04.03.2020

Number of characters

34977

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GOST	Rebeko T. Skin diseases and secondary symbiosis // Psikhologicheskii zhurnal – 2020. – V. 41. – Issue 2 C. 69-79 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://psy.jes.su/S020595920008567-9-1 (circulation date: 26.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S020595920008567-9
MLA	Rebeko, T. "Skin diseases and secondary symbiosis." Psikhologicheskii zhurnal 41.2 (2020):69-79. DOI: 10.31857/S020595920008567-9
APA	Rebeko T. (2020). Skin diseases and secondary symbiosis. Psikhologicheskii zhurnal 41(2), pp.69-79 DOI: 10.31857/S020595920008567-9

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