Psicologia clínica e adoecimento cardíaco: as razões e des-razões do coração.

Abstract

This study has aimed investigate the involvement of emotional phenomenons as influencers in the process of organic disease of the cardiocirculatory system, based on the theoretical basis available in the literature, regarding the psychosomatic processes and how they can be manifested from the non-symbolization of unconsciously denied conflicts and, after somatized, express themselves in the body, through the heart illness. In this perspective, the objective was to study, among the various forms of cardiac manifestations, the "broken heart syndrome" (Takotsubo's syndrome), which consists of a form of heart disease induced by stress, often confused with Acute Myocardial Infarction frame. This study is justified by the lack of scientific publications that address this pathology and its characteristics in the area of Clinical Psychology applied to Cardiology.