[Artefacts as a creative process--a case report].
The psychological treatment on a 13-year-old girl with dermatitis artefacta during dermatological inward treatment is presented. On the base of the biographic background the psychodynamic conflict, underlying the manipulative behaviour, is revealed. With the help of pictorial expressions and a special hypnotherapeutic technique ("working with parts") the young patient succeeds in integrating her ambivalent feelings and in getting a deeper insight of her problems. The manipulations are regarded as a creative attempt to solve an intrapsychic conflict of ambivalence.
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