The history of psychosomatic medicine (1) abounds with different conceptual approaches to the understanding of health, illness, and disease and to the care of the sick, alternative to those taken by biomedicine (e.g., refs. 2-5). The psychosomatic perspective on the universe of Medicine has gone by many different names (e.g., biopsychosocial, holistic, human, integrative, patient-oriented, psyc...

Address: 1Department of Psychosomatic Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan, 2Department of Psychology, Boston College, Boston, USA, 3Department of Stress Sciences and Psychosomatic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 4Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of ...

OBJECTIVE Psychological distress is common in patients with cancer. We need a rapid means of screening for and identifying depression and anxiety in patients with cancer. The present study evaluates the potential of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) scoring as a brief screening tool to assess psychological distress in routine cancer care. The ECOG PS is widel...

background: training of pediatric residents is a dynamic process which should be changed as the nature and epidemiology of pediatric diseases change. in this study, we compared the training program of the pediatric residents with the disorders of the pediatric patients who had referred to pediatric offices. methods: the study was conducted in pediatric offices in shiraz, south of iran. the main...

BioPsychoSocial Medicine is the official journal of The Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine [2], which was established on November 30, 1959, and now has over three thousand seven hundred members. The Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine is an interdisciplinary academic society consisting mainly of physicians, gynecologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, dermatologists, dentists, re...

In this multicentre study on multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) 291 consecutive environmental medicine (EM) outpatients were examined in several environmental medicine outpatient centres/units throughout Germany in 2000/2003. Of the EM outpatients, 89 were male (30.6%) and 202 were female (69.4%), aged 22-80 (mean 48 years, S.D.=12 years). The sample was representative for university-based env...

OBJECTIVE Teaching profession is characterised by an above-average rate of psychosomatic and mental health impairment due to work-related stress. The aim of the study was to identify predictors of mental health in female teachers. MATERIAL AND METHODS A sample of 630 female teachers (average age 47 ± 7 years) participated in a screening diagnostic inventory. Mental health was surveyed with th...

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/pps Dr. Yujiro Ikemi, Professor Emeritus of Kyushu University, died on June 25, 1999, at age 84. With great sorrow, I write about my teacher, the late Dr. Ikemi, one of the world’s leading psychosomatists who developed new concepts, made new discoveries and gave new meaning to the expanding field of psychosomatic medicine. His contribution towards i...

OBJECTIVE Weight-related teasing (WT) is associated with poor mental health. This study examined whether weight status moderates the relationship between WT and psychosomatic symptoms within a representative sample of school-aged youth. METHODS Data are from the Canadian 2013/2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Survey, a nationally representative sample of youth in Grades 6-10. WT, ...