Skin: A means of expression

The skin is a border between a body and the world, if we use the most current theories on the production of health, we can consider the skin as a place of great sencibilidad that reacts directly to unconscious mental processes. In a specific way, diseases of the skin manifestations are expressed might say, is as if speaking through the skin extension, beyond the scope of a consciente.Manchas control, certain figures, red dots, pink or intense soft, where you can read a phrase stuck in the skin, as written in the cells, expressed in the mucosa. Each unit of the cutaneous manifestation in a rash for example, say that is like a letter, a unit relative to other forms a structure in which you can read the presence of a certain disease. Normal skin manifestations that rigidify, autonomization and constitute disease, from mild to acute forms, to its permanent displays or chronic. Since ancient times, skin diseases were studied with a double look, there was something incomprehensible in them, something that escaped the microscope of physical chemistry. The skin is an organ on which they are expressed in an objective, different emotional situations, consequently resulting in alterations of blood flow, humidity, temperature, or directly, manifest disorders in areas outside contact.

The importance of psychological factors in these disturbances, has been described and considered from a long time. Eczema, warts and other diseases, were observed by dermatologists and psychoanalysts and carefully studying the issue, it was believed that in many cases, obeyed in its causes and crossroads desarrrollo perfectly susceptible to psychotherapeutic treatment. The most advanced concepts in dermatology, consider the involvement of multiple factors in the production of these diseases somehow coinciding with the etiological equation proposed by psychoanalysis. From Freud's theory opens the need for a comprehensive study of the patient and their life situation, considering the skin disease as a reaction to the totality of an organism to stimuli both physical and psychic. From the observation in dermatology clinics, interesting conclusions are drawn which is described in a psychological atmosphere characteristic, which indicates that people with those conditions, have a psychological situation, which has been described as a controlled but anxious deseseperación, other than a depression but with a particular anxiety because while not threatened with death, the appearance of your body is sick and is therefore committed to their social image, something very important in our society.

This is a matter of intense concern, which becomes a source of anxiety and feeling of discomfort or pain, they added the mortification they produce. These circumstances, this subjective story, distinguishes these people from others. Usually for these reasons, the subject of social commentary, being able to find cases of rejection, motivated by the idea of ​​a possible infection or a neat little picture. The skin is a terminal body, the acting equivalent of emotional processes, being what we call, "an organ of expression", as determined by defined processes, whether incurred through voluntary or involuntary nervous system. When we think of the skin, keep in mind that is not perceived as a layering system, as it is from the histological point of view, but the subject is the effects in terms of the situations in which it is involved . Sometimes the skin manifestations appear in sencibilidad points to different stimuli, such as cold, burning, itching or pleasure. And so, as the qualities of tactile system, from the aesthetic point of view cosmetic, can lead to feelings of beauty or ugliness, purity or impurity, pallor, flushing, smoothness or roughness. There have been experiences with hypnosis, as hysteria, in which it was cause and cure skin lesions in same procedure in a very short period of time, which has led researchers to seriously consider the presence and importance of psychological factors in the production and cure of these conditions.