A narrative approach to psychotherapy of somatoform bladder dysfunction: clinical case analysis
Treatment of somatoform bladder dysfunction is a pressing problem in medicine, because due to the non-recognition of the psychosomatic nature of the disorder, patients can be ineffectively treated by a urologist for a long time. The pathogenetic treatment of this dysfunction can be psychotherapy. The article provides an example of a clinical case of using the narrative approach in psychotherapy with the aim of restructuring the patient's dysfunctional patterns in the direction of their positive orientation. In the course of psychotherapy, eight narratives were consistently prepared in the form of written storylines that corresponded to real life episodes and reflected the characteristics of the patient's current state of mind at various periods, from manifestation of the disease to clinical recovery.