This paper presents the results of two pilot studies on the relevance of three aspects of generalized control orientations (iniernality, powerful others control, and chance control) in dermatological outpatients. Locus of control beliefs (IPC scales) and attitudes as well as behavior related to personal hygiene and health were measured in first study in a sample of 120 adult patients presenting...

Objective To determine whether a psychiatric-psychosomatic consultation can identify unmet treatment needs and improve treatment of patients with mental disorders in general practice. Methods In 40 primary care practices, 307 consecutive primary patients who met criteria for chronic mental disorders were assessed by a psychiatric-psychosomatic consultant. After random assignment, general prac...

Neuroscience was an integral part of psychosomatic medicine at its inception in the early 20th century. Since the mid-20th century, however, psychosomatic research has largely ignored the brain. The field of neuroscience has burgeoned in recent years largely because a variety of powerful new methods have become available. Many of these methods allow for the noninvasive study of the living human...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: A previous meta-analysis showed that being bullied during childhood is related to psychosomatic problems, but many other studies have been published since then, including some longitudinal studies. We performed a new meta-analysis to quantify the association between peer victimization and psychosomatic complaints in the school-aged population. METHODS: We searched onli...

As far as the editors can determine, the following article by Mildred Edie Brady reprinted from the New Republic of May 26,1947, with the permission of the editors and the author, is a valid presentation of ““The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich.”” In view of the fact that the author of the article suggested that members of the medical profession had not themselves made sufficient effort to warn t...

Modern Biofeedback Technique is the implementation of psychosomatic interrelationship in respect to health and disease, the psychophysical principle is utilized for psychosomatic self regulation. The basic concept of biofeedback training are well considered in the Vedas, and Yoga system of Indian philosophy. The concept of biofeedback training depends on the ancient philosophical concept of min...

Many reports have been published concerning how psychosocial stress influences the occurrence and progression of allergic diseases such as bronchial asthma and atopic dermatitis. As for asthma, a typical allergic disease often accompanied by psychosomatic related problems, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), international medical guidelines for asthma, describes psychosocial problems as ca...

The busy activities of students both in participating on campus and outside the result fatigue trigger emergence stress. Prolonged stress can disrupt health cause physical illness (psychosomatic). Psychosomatics is a triggered by pile negative emotions. affect everyone without exception students. Someone who cannot direct their thoughts feelings properly vulnerable to psychosomatics. psychosoma...

Our present-day understanding of vomiting of pregnancy is a result of the perspectives opened up by psychosomatic medicine. The relationship between vomiting and the attitude toward the child were studied in 100 primiparous women, of whom 68 suffered from vomiting. Verbally expressed attitudes were studied by semistructured interviews. The results show a positive relationship between vomiting a...