Operational thinking at adolescence in relation to psychosomatic disorder
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This article represents an attempt from a developmental point of view to construct theoretical links between psychic and somatic functioning as they are manifest in psychosomatic illness and to relate this process to the types of thinking — preoperational and operational — that determine the insights into disease available to the adolescent mind.
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Health Psychology Theoretical Link Psychosomatic Disorder Operational Thinking Developmental Point
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