There is increasing awareness of the limitations of disease as the primary focus of medical care. It is not that certain disorders lack an organic explanation, but that our assessment is inadequate in most clinical encounters. The primary goal of psychosomatic medicine is to correct this inadequacy by incorporation of its operational strategies into clinical practice. At present, the research e...

From a patient’s perspective and experience endometriosis is characterized by six major challenges and stressors: 1) often the diagnosis is delayed; 2) the cause of the disease is unknown; 3) it is a chronic recurrent disease; 4) it affects young women; 5) it is accompanied by chronic pain and dyspareunia; 6) it may lead to infertility. These features create psychological needs for patients whi...

The link between emotion and disease has long fascinated mankind. Famous seventeen century British physician, Thomas Willis (1621–1675) saw diabetes as a consequence of sadness or long sorrow (Willis, 1971). Though better known for describing what eventually became known as the " Circle of Willis " , he provided a fairly comprehensive description of the role of nervous system in disease (Encycl...

Editorial Psycho-somatic Medicine in Europe, Japan, and throughout the world must deal with similar problems such as the links between theoretical findings from different biological fields and programs in the basic sciences, and, on the other hand, progress in good clinical practice – from a psychosomatic perspective. What this means is good biopsycho-social primary care, family and internal me...

In discussing "psychosomatic medicine" we are thinking of this concept in relation to psychoanalytical thinking. We are not discussing disease entities from the medical point of view, but elements of psychophysiological functions which begin with fetal life, and which continually remain active during normal psychic and biologic development throughout life. Thus we are not dealing with the probl...

fibromyalgia syndrome is a common disease in population, and alleviation of pain and prescription of medication is the main treatment option in most of cases. as fibromyalgia commonly associate with mood and psychosomatic disorders, multidisciplinary approaches to treatment including nonpharmacologic therapy, could be results in better control of pain and improve quality of life of these patients.