GLYCAEMIC DYSREGULATION AND RELATIONAL/ AFFECTIVE DYSREGULATION IN A PATIENT WITH DIABETES MELLITUS

摘要

Recent psychoanalytically inspired psychosomatics conceptualises somatic disorders as dis- orders in the internalised relationship with a regulating object, causing physiologicallaffec- tive dysregulation. In diabetes mellitus, measurements of blood glucose allow close monitoring of a form of somatic regulation. Several authors have reported parallels between glycaemic oscillations and relational vicissitudes, in both experimental and clinical settings. Mothers of diabetic patients report a history of misattunement in feeding patterns, while Similar difficulties, on the symbolic level of accepting mutual communication, are found in The analysis of adult patients.