{"id":32464,"date":"2024-08-22T22:27:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T22:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-internal-picture-of-the-disease\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:18:02","slug":"the-internal-picture-of-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-internal-picture-of-the-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal Picture of Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>a concept introduced by A. Luria (1874\u20131944) characterizing a patient\u2019s representations of their illness. It constitutes a complex, multilevel formation including:<br>1) sensory level \u2013 a complex of painful sensations;<br>2) emotional level \u2013 experiences of the illness and its consequences;<br>3) intellectual level \u2013 knowledge about the illness and its realistic evaluation, understanding of causes and consequences;<br>4) motivational level \u2013 formation of a specific attitude toward the illness, lifestyle changes, and activation of activities aimed at recovery.<br>Knowledge of the internal picture of illness is important for forming treatment adherence and motivation for recovery. The term is characteristic of Russian psychology; the closest concept in Western psychology is illness representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a concept introduced by A. Luria (1874\u20131944) characterizing a patient\u2019s representations of their illness. It constitutes a complex, multilevel formation including:1) sensory level \u2013 a complex of painful sensations;2) emotional level \u2013 experiences of the illness and its consequences;3) intellectual level \u2013 knowledge about the illness and its realistic evaluation, understanding of causes and consequences;4) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-clinical-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80606,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32464\/revisions\/80606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}