Psychosomatics is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century. It systematically and deeply investigated the inseparable relationship between mind and body and how traumatic effects on the psyche can lead to physical pathological conditions.

The child who is traumatized freezes the emotions and thoughts associated with the trauma in order to survive. Gradually, they adopt a mechanistic way of life and cling to the reality to which they conform.

When the individual suffers new traumas, they may become disorganized; then only one point of reference remains: the body. And this, falling ill, reveals through pain that mind and body remain alive.

The crisis, as painful as it may be, can become a starting point for finding the individual's history and identity — essentially, for discovering the true self.

In this book, through clinical examples, it is highlighted that illness initiates a reparative process of the psychosoma, which leads to reconnection with the real self that the individual had previously ignored.