acne vulgaris as a disfiguring disease which can induce either anxiety, depression and other psychological problems in specially young adults. these problems just like any other serious physical disease can disturb the quality of life of the affected patients. in the treatment approach to the acne, enough attention should be payed to the psychological aspects of the disease. without pointing ou...

Abstract In the Finnish medical discussion during middle decades of twentieth century, challenging differential diagnostics between hyperthyroidism and various neuroses was perceived to yield a risk unnecessary surgical interventions psychiatric patients. 1963, surgeon Erkki Saarenmaa claimed that ‘the most significant mark neurotic transverse scar on neck’, result an thyroid surgery. The utter...

Objective To determine whether a psychiatric-psychosomatic consultation can identify unmet treatment needs and improve treatment of patients with mental disorders in general practice. Methods In 40 primary care practices, 307 consecutive primary patients who met criteria for chronic mental disorders were assessed by a psychiatric-psychosomatic consultant. After random assignment, general prac...

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...

and rehabilitation of medical disease, and (4) multidisciplinary organization of health care that overcomes the artificial boundaries of traditional medical specialties’. They note that the concepts of ‘allostasis’ and ‘allostatic load and overload’ [3–6] have played a major role in the new version of the practice of psychosomatic medicine. This Editorial discusses the links of psychosomatic me...

BACKGROUND Psychogenic fever is one of the most common psychosomatic diseases. Patients with psychogenic fever have acute or persistent body temperature above normal range in psychologically stressful situations. In spite of numerous case reports on psychogenic fever, there are few epidemiological studies. Therefore, our goal was to investigate the age distribution and gender differences of psy...

OBJECTIVE This article adopts the perspective of psychosomatic medicine to present and test a theoretical model of the classification of clinical somatic symptoms. The theoretical model consists of four dimensions: emotional somatic symptoms, biological somatic symptoms, imaginative somatic symptoms, and cognitive somatic symptoms. METHOD A clinical somatic symptom classification scale was de...

Many scientists and practitioners from different countries and organizations are working in the field of Psychosomatic and Behavioural Medicine. The clinicians are looking for a better health care and are trying to increase their quality in an individual patient. The scientists are trying to understand the interaction in a patient between mind, body and social environment. Different countries a...

‘‘Sixteen years as a general practitioner [GP] showed me that the prevailing biomedical reductionist model fails to address the complexity of human experience and psychosomatic illness that daily practice brings up, and for which I was not trained. Even at the purely physical level, there are huge gaps in conventional training with virtually no training in musculoskeletal medicine (a huge compo...