Childhood Disorder—A Psychosomatic Approach

A psychosomatic approach.

A Psychosomatic Approach to Medicine

Psychosomatic illness is attracting a body of abstruse and ?rudite literature which is gradually adding a great deal to our knowledge of the relations of mind and body under stress, and in health. But much of it is incomprehensible to the layman and even to the general practitioner, since it presupposes knowledge ^'hich in fact they have not got. Dr. O'Neill sets out to remedy this defect by pr...

[Psychosomatic approach for chronic headache].

Chronic headache is caused by several reasons, such as medication over use, psychological stress, depression, anxiety and psychiatric disease. It is often difficult to treat medication over use headache. So it is important to manage the psychological factor before abuse. There are the relationships in migraine and psychiatric disease, especially major depression and panic disorder. In the treat...

Childhood physical abuse in outpatients with psychosomatic symptoms

BACKGROUND In Japan and Asia, few studies have been done of physical and sexual abuse. This study was aimed to determine whether a history of childhood physical abuse is associated with anxiety, depression and self-injurious behavior in outpatients with psychosomatic symptoms. METHODS We divided 564 consecutive new outpatients at the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine of Kyushu University H...

Childhood asthma: a psychosomatic disorder? Some epidemiological considerations.

Epidemiologists with an interest in bronchial asthma, have given little attention to the psychiatric aspects of this condition, particularly as it occurs in childhood. Clinical impressions, rather than the results of systematic studies, are responsible for the fact that some paediatricians and psychiatrists have come to view the personality of the asthmatic child in terms of a stereotype engend...