Behavioural medicine for oral psychosomatic disorders

Psychosomatic Medicine

Inhere is still a lack of agreement about basic concepts in this field. The name 'tself is unfortunate, since it tends to perpetuate dualistic thinking of the "ghost ?n the machine" type.

Psychosomatic Medicine

Psychosomatic disorders:

In this paper I will explore some of the arguments surrounding the concept of the psychosomatic and psychosomatic disorders. As will become clear this is an idea which has a difficult history within psychoanalysis, and even today there appears to be no clear agreement as to whether the concept of the psychosomatic has any place at all within analytic discourse. I will begin the discussion by ou...

Bellyaching in these pages: upper gastrointestinal disorders in Psychosomatic medicine.

OBJECTIVE The evolution of views regarding the impact of psychosocial factors on peptic ulcer was traced by examining all articles related to the upper gastrointestinal tract published in Psychosomatic Medicine since its inception. METHODS Titles were retrieved using MEDLINE and by manually searching tables of contents for the years 1939 through 2000. The articles were classified by type and ...

Prospects of Psychosomatic Medicine

Address: 1Department of Psychosomatic Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan, 2Department of Psychology, Boston College, Boston, USA, 3Department of Stress Sciences and Psychosomatic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 4Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of ...