The Psychosomatic Practice

Current Psychosomatic Practice.

Psychosomatic research has advanced over the past decades in dealing with complex biopsychosocial phenomena and may provide new effective modalities of patient care. Among psychosocial variables affecting individual vulnerability, course, and outcome of any medical disease, the role of chronic stress (allostatic load/overload) has emerged as a crucial factor. Assessment strategies include the D...

The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine practice guidelines for psychiatric consultation in the general medical setting. The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine.

This practice guideline seeks to provide guidance to psychiatrists who regularly evaluate and manage patients with medical illnesses. The guideline is intended to delineate the knowledge base, professional expertise, and integrated clinical approach necessary to effectively manage this complex and diverse patient population. This guideline was drafted by a work group consisting of psychiatrists...

The Psychosomatic Patient

Everyone has psychosomatic aspects of their emotional lives. Reactions such as rage, guilt, fear, and love have physiological components mediated through the neuroendocrine system, and that same system can directly affect subjective aspects of emotion and cognition. These relationships among brain, mind, muscles, immune system, mood, cognition, and perception are dauntingly complex even before ...

Psychosomatic Gynæcology

The Psychosomatic Disorders Pertaining to Dental Practice with Revised Working Type Classification

Psychosomatic disorders are defined as disorders characterized by physiological changes that originate partially from emotional factors. This article aims to discuss the psychosomatic disorders of the oral cavity with a revised working type classification. The author has added one more subset to the existing classification, i.e., disorders caused by altered perception of dentofacial form and fu...