With the advent of new treatments for medical diseases such as cancer, asthma, HIV infection, and cystic fibrosis, more children and adolescents are living with chronic illness than ever before. Seventy years ago, persons with cystic fibrosis survived an average of 5 years, while currently the life expectancy for patients with cystic fibrosis is more than 30 years.1 For children with cancer, th...

This article introduces key concepts of work-related stress relevant to the clinical and research fields of psychosomatic medicine. Stress is a term used to describe the body's physiological and/or psychological reaction to circumstances that require behavioral adjustment. According to the Japanese National Survey of Health, the most frequent stressors are work-related problems, followed by hea...

The TCM hospital Bad Kötzting is historically the first inpatient facility in Germany with an emphasis on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The clinic's specialty is the multimodal treatment of somatic complaints in conjunction with acute psychological or psychiatric comorbidity. Most patients present with clinical problems of a high degree of chronicity and complexity. Over the past 25 years...

Currently, there is a significant prevalence of psychosomatic disorders: from 15 to 50% in the general population, 21-33 % outpatient and 28-53% inpatient somatic institutions. However, taking into account variety clinical manifestations disorders patients' seeking help not only psychiatrists, but also doctors other specialties representatives nontraditional medicine, reality these indicators a...

Psychosomatic Medicine is aiming at a comprehensive understanding of patient's requests. This requires patient-centred communication. During the two-year course for "Psychosomatic Medicine"of the Lower-Austrian Medical Chamber at the Danube-University Krems relevant techniques are trained. This paper reports on the analysis of 120 video-consultations with simulated patients (30 participants, tw...

A serious problem currently plaguing the medical field is the widening gap between academic medicine, which studies the features and causes of illness, and the medical care that patients desire. An example of this gap can be observed in the practice of psychotherapy, which is effective only for certain patients. Kampo medicine that combines the advantages of Western medicine with those of tradi...

Purpose of review To summarize the current status of palliative care and the role of psychosomatic medicine in Indonesia. Recent findings Palliative care is not a new issue in Indonesia, which has been improving palliative care since 1992 and developed a palliative care policy in 2007 that was launched by the Indonesian Ministry of Health. However, the progress has been slow and varied across...

1 Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45276 Essen, Germany 2Department of Internal Medicine 1, Klinikum Saarbrücken, 66119 Saarbrücken, Germany 3Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität München, 81865 München, Germany 4 Service de Médecine Interne et Thérapeutique, Centre ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether family financial resources explain the association between parental labour market participation and children's health in families in Denmark and Sweden. DESIGN Parent reported questionnaire data from the survey of health and welfare among children and adolescents in the Nordic countries, 1996. PARTICIPANTS 4299 children aged 2-17 years. MEASURES Three ind...

1Department of Medicine, Division of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2Neuroradiology Section, Department of Radiology, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 3Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 4Depart...