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Attachment and Interpersonal Communication in Somatization
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The authors review the research on childhood antecedents and personality contributions to the somatoform disorders, as well as research on social influences during adulthood. Based on these data, the authors hypothesize that somatizing patients display anxious attachment behavior that derives from childhood experiences with caregivers. Early exposure to illness increases the likelihood that distress will be manifested somatically. When under stress as adults, somatizers use physical complaints to elicit care. Somatizers' interpersonal interactions with others, including physicians, ultimately lead to rejection that reinforces the somatizer's belief that he or she will be abandoned. Modification of physicians' responses to these patients may improve treatment outcomes.
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“The other major theory of health anxiety is based on the interpersonal model [36]. This model proposes that anxious and insecure attachments derived from caregivers in early childhood leads to increased maladaptive care-seeking behaviours and reassurance seeking in adulthood [37].”
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- Authors
- Stuart, S., & Noyes, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Iowa (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stuart, Scott
- ORCID
- Stuart, Scott
- Venue
- Psychosomatics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1999-01
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 34-43
- ISSN
- 0033-3182 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2042609187
- Cited by
- 238
- References
- 70
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 4.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychosomatics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- somatization, somatoform disorders, attachment, attachment anxiety, personality, interpersonal communication, physician-patient interaction, rejection, abandonment, stress, physical complaints
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Child, Communication, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Object Attachment, Personality Development, Physician-Patient Relations, Somatoform Disorders
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