This is the unconscious process of taking negative feelings or instincts originally directed towards others, but which are in violation of one’s morals or character - for example, “hating” a dying grandfather - and redirecting them at oneself: pain, illness, and anxiety. It is exemplified by sayings such as, “I make myself sick.”
Somatization highlights the concept of the reptilian brain’s relation to control of the body, in that, if [Read more...] about Somatization