Psychosomatics and Autoimmune Diseases: The Experience of the French School

The Armenian Psychoanalytic Association held another professional meeting with Diran Donabedian, Scientific Director of the seminars at the Paris Institute of Psychosomatics.

The discussion focused on the approaches of the French psychosomatic school, particularly on how unprocessed emotions and internal anxieties may transform into physical conditions, including autoimmune diseases.

The meeting enabled specialists to reconsider the understanding of illness by seeing the patient’s individual experience behind the medical symptom. The day concluded with a joint analysis of clinical cases and discussions of practical issues.