Psychosomatic Medicine: Specificity and Integration

Perspectives of Psychosomatic Medicine: An Integration of Psychoneuroimmunology and Epigenetics

After being subject to Descartes’ fallacy for the past few centuries, it has now again been recognized that the mental state has an impact on health and disease, and it is becoming increasingly more evident that DNA alone does not predict health trajectories. Psychoneuroimmunology and epigenetics are two fields of science whose research supports those ideas. Psychoneuroimmunology aims to discov...

Psychosomatic Medicine

Inhere is still a lack of agreement about basic concepts in this field. The name 'tself is unfortunate, since it tends to perpetuate dualistic thinking of the "ghost ?n the machine" type.

Psychosomatic Medicine

Psychosomatic Medicine and Contemporary Psychoanalysis

on antibiotic dosing in pediatrics; treatment of tuberculosis; chemoprophylaxis for special situations such as surgery, travel, and contact with cases of meningitis; drugs for parasitic infection, infections transmitted by pets, and many others. There is an entire section on vaccination, including routine vaccines, special vaccines, and detailed coverage of many vaccine issues, including the Fe...

Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychoneuroimmunology and Psychedelics