This is a symposium written by twelve physicians, the aim being to present some of the major clinical developments in recent years. The following are the subjects treated in the book : (1) Control of infections, (2) venereal diseases, (3) tropical medicine, (4) gastro-intestinal diseases, (5) metabolic disorders, (6) cardio-vascular diseases, (7) renal diseases, (8) diseases of the blood, (9) d...

There was a time when works on Hypnosis were associated with French names like Charcot, Liebault, Bernheim or British names like Elliotson, Esdaile, Braid but this book contains articles mainly by Americans. Hypnosis has made great strides in that country and is used particularly at the famous Psychiatric Menninger Clinic at Topeka, Kansas. I would like to see it more widely used here. The book...

Stress response is associated with manifestations of various psychosomatic and psychiatric disorders. Hence, it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms that influence this association. Moreover, men and women tend to react differently with stress-both psychologically and biologically. These differences also need to be studied in order to have a better understanding in the gender di...

Somatic complaints are often related to chronic stressrelated illnesses, but the diagnoses are not obvious in all cases. In some cases, patients could be classified with functional somatic syndromes. These syndromes are defined as several related disease-conditions that are characterized more by symptoms, suffering, and disability than by structural or functional abnormalities [1]. Functional s...

Teacher health is described as the physical and mental well-being of teachers (Harlin et al., 1976). Harlin et al. (1976) describe ten categories of health concern that may create barriers to good teaching. The categories are: ( ) a emotional or psychosomatic, (b) communicable diseases, (c) systemic, (d) vision and hearing problems, (e) dental disorders, (f) surgery, (g) injuries, (h) orthopedi...

It is commonly held that our industrial pattern of life presents each one who works in industry with inordinate emotional strain. Gastric ulcers are the supposed psychosomatic reward of highpressure executive work. Boredom, neurosis and delinquency are assumed to be the fruits of what to the onlooker may seem repetitious and monotonous mass-production work. Nervous disorders are presumed to be ...

A prolonged exposure to stress can lead to mental disorders and psychosomatic diseases, e.g declining of health. This survey reviews sensors, human-body parameters and context information correlated with the stress level, and investigates various stress analysis methods. Sensors for stress determination are classified and divided into four groups with regard to the physiological and physical pa...

Fibromyalgia (FM) is psychosomatic disorder characterized by central sensitization with increased reactivity of pain-sensitive nerve cells in the spinal cord or brain, which results in hypersensitivity to painful and no painful stimuli in person usually presented anxiety or mood disorders. Chronic pain, sleep disturbances, and depression, which are leading symptoms of FM, have been reported to ...