Abstract Background: Chronic urticaria (CU) is a common dermatological disease that induces a substantial burden on individuals’ life. Also if one’s self-image changes (which usually happen in patients with dermatological diseases), it leads to anxiety or other various symptoms. We aimed to compare the psychological scales in patients with CU with non-dermatological individuals with the purpos...

This issue marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of Psychosomatic Medicine. It is also the inaugural issue for adding, Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine as our new subtitle. Why, after 70 years of successful publication, does our journal now have a subtitle? Why was this particular subtitle chosen? And what does this change mean for the future of the journal? In their introductory editoria...

The pathogenesis of psychosomatic disorders is discussed within the framework of a brain model centered around memory-driven information processing for the organization of behavior. The key concept is the multidimensional, nonunitary, adaptive orienting response that is elicited by the pre-attentive step of information processing for the allocation of attention and the functional organization o...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND With the "ASIA-LINK" program, the European Community has supported the development and implementation of a curriculum of postgraduate psychosomatic training for medical doctors in China, Vietnam and Laos. Currently, these three countries are undergoing great social, economic and cultural changes. The associated psychosocial stress has led to increases in psychological a...

In this article, we describe the history and current state of psychosomatic medicine (PSM) in Japan and propose measures that could be considered based on our view of the future prospects of PSM in Japan. The Japanese Society of PSM (JSPM) was established in 1959, and the first Department of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine in Japan was established at Kyushu University In 1963. PSM in Japan has ...

This article analyses Allison and Heshka's (Internal Journal of Eating Disorders, 13, 289-295, 1993.) critical analysis of studies supporting psychosomatic theory. Questionned first is, Allison and Heshka's contention that the obese overreport emotional eating as a result of effects of demand characteristics, social desirability, and interpersonal expectancies. These effects, however, indicate ...

Two scientific European organizations in the field of consultationliaison (C-L) psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine (PM), the European Association of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics (EACLPP) and the European Network of Psychosomatic Medicine (ENPM) decided to merge and together create a new society, the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM). The EACLPPwas fo...

background: the purpose of this study was to compare alexithymia, anxiety, depression and severity of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders and psychiatric patients. materials and methods: this was a comparative study. study subjects consisted of 210 individuals; 129 patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid) who referred to the psychos...