Carolina Seybert (International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin) Dorothea Huber (International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Clinical Center, München) Melanie Ratzek (International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin) Johannes Zimmermann (Institute for Psychology, University of Kassel) Günther Klug (Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychosom...

BACKGROUND Type D personality, or the "distressed personality", is a psychosocial factor associated with negative health outcomes, although its impact in younger populations is unclear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Type D personality and the associations between Type D personality and psychosomatic symptoms and musculoskeletal pain among adolescences. METHODS...

BACKGROUND In many Western countries, an increasing number of children with separated parents have joint physical custody, that is, live equally much in their parent's respective homes. In Sweden, joint physical custody is particularly common and concerns between 30% and 40% of the children with separated parents. It has been hypothesised that the frequent moves and lack of stability in parenti...

In the launching of " Psychobiological Research in Psychosomatic Medicine " topic, we defined the principal goal of psychosomatic medicine as " the integration of biological, psychological, and social systems that may influence health or pathology, namely in chronic diseases and co-morbid physical and psychiatric disorders. " According to Fava et al. (1) in the interdisciplinary field of Psycho...

Oral lichen planus (OLP) is a chronic inflammatory and immune-mediated disease that presents as bilateral, symmetrical oral lesions with three main clinical presentations: reticular, atrophic, erosive. It clinically characterized by pain, burning sensation, discomfort for sufferers. Currently OLP classified potentially malignant disorder. has been associated numerous systemic connotations such ...

the aim of this study was to compare the level of anxiety and depression in patients admitted to surgery or internal departments. the study was carried out on 359 hospitalized patients over the age of 18 years and designed as a cross sectional survey. participants were recruited from internal medicine and surgery departments of khatam al anbia hospital, tehran, iran. information was collected u...