Psychosomatic medicine is concerned with somatic diseases that are caused or influenced by mental processes(97), for example, bodily symptoms caused by beliefs. Classic examples for the influence of beliefs on bodily states are placebo and nocebo effects (Figure 2B)(84–86). In placebo and nocebo...
Psychosocial factors are shared determinants of health outcomes across diseases, therefore labeled as 'Super-highways for Disease', must be taken into account to reduce the number of unnecessary diagnostic examinations and unsuccessful treatments, to reduce the length of hospital stay, to increase the ...
(2015) 9:8 DOI 10.1186/s13030-015-0036-2 REVIEW Open Access Psychosomatic treatment for allergic diseases Kazufumi Yoshihara Abstract Summary: Many reports have been published concerning how psychosocial stress influences the occurrence and progression of allergic diseases such as bronchial asthma and ...
“psychosomatic diseases.” This hypothesis was not supported by subsequent research.1Two personality constructs that can potentially affect general vulnerability to disease,type A behaviorandalexithymia(i.e., the inability to express emotion), have attracted considerable attention, but their relationship ...
c. sleep deprivation. d. a nutritional deficiency. Psychosomatic Symptoms: When a person develops a psychosomatic disorder, a multitude of symptoms can arise. For example, a person who manifests a psychosomatic disease may feel lightheaded, exhausted...
(2015) 9:8 DOI 10.1186/s13030-015-0036-2 REVIEW Open Access Psychosomatic treatment for allergic diseases Kazufumi Yoshihara Abstract Summary: Many reports have been published concerning how psychosocial stress influences the occurrence and progression of allergic diseases such as bronchial asthma and ...
Such diseases include acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), endocrinopathies, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, degenerative diseases of the nervous system, systemic lupus erythematosus, and occult neoplastic disorders. Somatic symptom disorder is differentiated from illness anxiety disorder (a new ...
At first the importance of differential diagnosis of adolescent psychosomatic diseases from other psychiatric disorders with somatic symptoms was pointed out. Adolescence, like infancy and the terminal stage of life, is the period in which the distance between body and mind is very close, and it is...
Engel (1967) wrote that the term “psychosomatic disorder” was misleading, since it implied a special class of disorders of psychogenic aetiology and, by inference, the absence of a psychosomatic interface in other diseases. On the other hand, he viewed reductionism that overlooked the impact of...
Actual examples showed that these psychosomatic symptoms disappeared and the pattern of urination improved after adequate treatmet.As to the sexual function, the 500 cases the author observed, are classified and the incidence according to age is presented. Psychosomatic impotence in aged patients in ...