The Psychosomatic Perspective

The Psychosomatic Patient

Everyone has psychosomatic aspects of their emotional lives. Reactions such as rage, guilt, fear, and love have physiological components mediated through the neuroendocrine system, and that same system can directly affect subjective aspects of emotion and cognition. These relationships among brain, mind, muscles, immune system, mood, cognition, and perception are dauntingly complex even before ...

A qualitative investigation of barriers and facilitators of rehabilitation success from the psychosomatic inpatients’ perspective

OBJECTIVE Psychosomatic inpatient rehabilitation aims at promoting functioning in patients with mental disorders. Although generally effective, some patients do not benefit from this rehabilitation and suffer from symptoms as well as functional impairment. This study aimed to identify patient-reported factors influencing activity and participation outcomes. SUBJECT AND METHODS Five focus grou...

Psychosomatic Gynæcology

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...

Psychosomatic Research

The bulk of this book is made up of a collection of papers from the Second Medical Service, Wilhelmina Gasthius, Amsterdam, which were published in various scientific journals between 1956 and 1960; and this fact might diminish the reader's interest. It would be a pity if so, for they have been edited and arranged and added to, in such a way as to give a most stimulating account of the developm...