[From the act to the somatic event; history, construction and Nachträglichkeit].

This paper addresses the subject of somatization and other episodes that can affect the body. These phenomena are conceptualized as suffering that comes from the outside of the representational field, and their subsequent transformation into mental representations. In this study the author introduces the notion of act, which also lies outside the representational field, as well as that of event ensuing from the work of construction and historicization.

Configurations of time, the body, and verbal communication: Temporality in patients who express their suffering through the body.

This paper focuses on the study of temporality used as a clinical pointer to processes of affect regulation in patients who express their suffering through a discourse driven by bodily allusions. Differences between symptoms revealed by body language that conveys an experience of conflict (psychoneurotic symptoms) and somatizations are reviewed. Somatization is examined as a benchmark for the failure to resolve states of tension.

Psychosomatics: a current overview.

The term 'psychosomatic' has typically defined a series of illnesses in which somatic injury breaks out from psychic conflict not recognized as such. Currently, health is considered the only psychosomatic state of integration of mind and soma: an ideal state of integration. Somatic pathology is an effect of mind/body splitting.