IMMUNITY UNDER EMOTIONAL PRESSURE: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON INFECTIOUS PROCESSES
Keywords:
psychosomatics, consciousness, internal conflict, infectious process, immunity, inflammation, psycho-emotional tension, loci of decreased resistance.Abstract
This paper explores the psychosomatic approach to understanding infectious processes as a bodily manifestation of unresolved internal conflicts. It highlights the role of the polarity of consciousness, which drives the constant need to choose, accompanied by feelings of loss and deficiency that may lead to psycho-emotional tension. The analysis shows that ignoring or repressing conflicts into the unconscious results in somatic reactions of the body, particularly in the form of inflammatory processes. The importance of individual immune capacity as an internal readiness to resist is emphasized. The interrelation between specific psycho-emotional states and the dysfunction of particular organs is discussed, supported by contemporary psychosomatic research.
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