Anniversary Disease
- 1 January 1973
- journal article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
- Vol. 22 (2-6) , 325-333
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000286538
Abstract
It appears that in some people, falling ill has the function of commemorating, e.g. the death of a beloved person or their own wedding anniversary or that of one of their children. One of the main roots of Anniversary Disease is an unsolved emotional conflict situation in the aggressive sphere. One has to atone through the illness for the aggressive, mostly unconscious drives towards a key figure. The illness can relieve the conflict by pathocure, without awareness of existing feelings of grief and mourning, connected with separation and loss. Anniversary Disease is a non-specific reaction, which in the described material lasted no more than a week or ten days.Keywords
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