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Psychotherapy with the Somatizing Patient
Dr Joan Haliburn

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Somatization Disorder – a polysymptomatic syndrome - is a chronic preoccupation with somatic complaints, for which medical care is repeatedly sought, and clinical dilemmas often presented, resulting in disproportionate health care utilization. Affect is isolated or split off and attention is focused on the body, resulting in more awareness of the physical than of psychological aspects of the individual. As an Axis 1 disorder it may be accompanied by Borderline or Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorders or traits.

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Master of Medicine and (Psychotherapy); Master of Science in Medicine (Psychotherapy)
Psychotherapy Think Tank / Grand Rounds
Mental Health Sciences Centre,
Building 112, Cumberland Hospital. NSW, Australia
Recorded: 18 March 2010

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TITLE	SPEAKER	DURATION
Psychotherapy with the Somatizing Patient	Joan Haliburn	42'09
Psychotherapy with the Somatizing Patient	Joan Haliburn
Psychotherapy with the Somatizing Patient	Joan Haliburn

Dr Joan Haliburn

Joan Haliburn is a child, adolescent and family psychiatrist, and psychotherapist. She has 30 years experience working in the field, in both hospital and private practice. She works with seriously disturbed adolescents and young adults, with psychotherapy being the primary focus along with pharmacotherapy. She is a senior clinical lecturer, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, senior supervisor with the psychotherapy program there, and was until 2009 the Director of Training ANZAP.

She was part of an international delegation of psychiatrists who visited Russia in 2009 under the auspices of the International People –to- People Educational & Humanitarian Program, to study the state of Psychiatry in Russia – she found this experience unique- particularly the primary importance given to psychotherapy in the treatment of mental illness. She currently offers psychotherapy supervision to all disciplines, singly and in groups.