Correspondence: Pedro J. Boschan, M.D., Araoz 2831 9C 1425 Buenos Aires, Argentina. e-mail: pedroboschan@yahoo.com

²Dr Pedro J. Boschan is Director of the Department of Psychoanalysis of the University Institute of Mental Health of the Associacion Psicoanalitica de Buenos Aires, training and supervising analyst, and Professor of Mental Health of the Medical School of the University of Buenos Aires.

¹ Paper presented at the Clinical Sándor Ferenczi Conference, August 2–6, 2006, Baden-Baden, Germany

Abstract

In this paper, after reviewing some of the controversial concepts of psychosomatics, and their historical development as well as some of their theoretical and clinical consequences, I propose a vincular point of view of this type of pathology, with some dreams of a psychosomatic patient where different aspects of the proposed model can be observed.