There are two broad themes in psychosomatic medicine research that relate emotions to physical disease outcomes. Theme 1 holds that self-reported negative affect has deleterious effects and self-reported positive affect has salubrious effects on health. Theme 2 holds that interference with the experience or expression of negative affect has adverse health consequences. From the perspective of s...

These graphic materials are a poster presentation for the III Congress with international participation "PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE OF THE XXI CENTURY: REALITIES AND PERSPECTIVES". Which took place on November 4-6, 2022 in Kyiv Mediamed portal.

These graphic materials are a poster presentation for the III Congress with international participation "PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE OF THE XXI CENTURY: REALITIES AND PERSPECTIVES". Which took place on November 4-6, 2022 in Kyiv Mediamed portal.

Ming He1 and Jikun Wang2,3* Department of Endocrinology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200020, China Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (MOE & STCSM), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200120...

With the development of modern medicine, an increasing awareness has developed regarding the limitations of a specialized and compartmentalized approach to clinical practice that largely ignores the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit. Although contemporary medicine now accepts this interconnectedness, practitioners tend to think that the emotions play a secondary or excitatory rol...

ene Descarte, a French philosopher advocated that mind and body were two separate entities. During the time of Renaissance, when the world was formulating biological revolution, heavy emphasis was placed on how body works. Unfortunately many tended to neglect, deny and underestimate the effects of the psyche on body. In the 19 century before Sigmund Freud, medicine was epitomized by the contrib...