Skin Complaints

Your skin is the first thing the world sees of you — and the last thing you notice yourself. It reddens, flakes, itches, burns, cracks open. Eczemas, rashes, dryness, hypersensitivity — the forms are many, but the underlying dynamic is always the same: your outermost boundary is making itself heard. The place where you end and the world begins is in uproar.

Medically, skin complaints are often inflammatory reactions, immune responses, or barrier disorders. Seen from a psychosomatic perspective, a different question arises: what is happening at your boundary — not the skin boundary, but the boundary between who you are on the outside and who you truly are on the inside? Why does the very organ that protects your innermost self while simultaneously presenting it to the world react in this way?