a Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Germany b Department of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Germany c Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Mainz, Germany d Department of Applied Human Studies, University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany e Integrated Research and Treatment Center Adiposity Diseases, Medic...

This review focuses first on conceptual chaos and different connotations in psychosomatic medicine, then on new perspectives on comorbidity and multimorbidity, especially from epigenetics perspective. Comorbidity is one of the greatest research and clinical challenges to contemporary psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. Recently altered gene expression due to epigenetic regulation has been im...

Treatment of patients with chronic diseases will be one of the main challenges of medicine in the future. This paper presents an overview of different origins, mechanism, and symptoms necessary for understanding new and different interventions that include a psychosomatic view.In a psychosomatic therapeutic intervention there are very different targets, such as psychological symptoms, personali...

1 SYCHOTHERAPY of patients who are suffering from organic diseases is not different from the psychotherapy of psychoneuroses. Its special feature is that it must be meaningfully integrated with the somatic treatment. A bleeding ulcer, an acute attack of ulcerative colitis, or asthma require immediate medical attention. Psychotherapy during such acute phases of the disease must restrict itself t...

In 1998 Uexküll and Wesiack presented the third edition of their textbook Theory of Human Medicine – in its 550 pages it attempts to portray the basic thinking and clinical practice of physicians (Th. von Uexküll et al., 1998). The authors, particularly the recently deceased Thure von Uexküll, have tried to encourage their colleagues to think about the model which forms the basis of their medic...