Many of the exciting conceptual and scientific advances in the field of psychosomatic medicine are not taught in United States medical schools. This article, based on the Presidential Address given at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society in Phoenix, Arizona in March 2003, reviews the rationale for integrating psychosomatic medicine into medical curricula, identifies educatio...

In modern conditions, achieving high results in sports for professional athletes is associated with enormous physical and mental stress. This situation aggravated by the fierce competition arena, which requires manifestation of motor abilities at level limit human capabilities, provoking a constant stressful atmosphere placing increased demands on personal qualities athletes. The scientific art...

BACKGROUND The American Psychosomatic Society is one of the oldest and probably the most influential scientific society in psychosomatic/biopsychosocial research worldwide. The current article delineates the historical development and current strategic orientation of the society. METHOD Review of published literature, archived materials and current documents of the society. RESULTS The Amer...

BACKGROUND Within national and international societies of psychosomatic medicine the idea has emerged of bringing together and coordinating psychosomatic, behavioural, psychological and medical actions with common interests throughout Europe as a way to increase their scientific and political influence. METHODS It was felt that there was a strong need and opportunity of a common and unifying ...

The aim of the current systematic review and meta-analysis was to examine prevalence incidence somatoform symptoms disorders (also referred as medically unexplained symptoms, psychosomatic functional syndromes, somatization disorder, or somatic symptom disorder) in childhood adolescence. PRISMA guidelines were followed, registered prior initiation (PROSPERO CRD42022339735). Fitting search terms...

BACKGROUND atopic dermatitis is directly related to psychological stress, reduced quality of life and psychosomatic symptoms. The Psychosomatic Scale for Atopic Dermatitis is the only questionnaire developed specifically for assessment of psychosomatization in atopic dermatitis. OBJECTIVES the objective of this study was to cross-culturally adapt and validate a Brazilian-Portuguese version of...

All doctors have encountered patients whose symptoms they cannot explain. These individuals frequently provoke despair and disillusionment. Many doctors make a link between inexplicable physical symptoms and assumed psychiatric ill­ ness. An array of adjectives in medicine apply to symptoms without established organic basis – ‘supratentorial’, ‘psychosomatic’, ‘functional’ – and these are somet...

aim and background: there are no questionnaires to assess the psychosomatic complaints of university students in iran. the purpose of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of takata and sakata's psychosomatic complaints scale among iranian university students. methods and materials: in this study, multistage cluster sampling was used to select 291 individuals from all male and f...

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...