Psychosomatic Medicine - Science topic

Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Evidence-Based Psychosomatic Medicine", Psychosomatic Medicine Research. 征稿:《心身医学研究》“循证心身医学” 英文专刊（发起人：吴一波；联合客座主编：陈社英，美国佩斯大学；蔡政忠，莆田学院医管系）

Sir, How were unexplained medical symptoms comprehended before 20th century? How were they discerned by society? How were these symptoms branded? Well, some were understood as God's wrath and others were named agnosias. With the advent of brain imaging techniques and relentless curiosity, the former found a place in psychiatric nosology and the lat...

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Background: Psychosomatic medicine is a systemic model of care based on the biopsychosocial model in which the physical, emotional, and social aspects of clinical conditions are considered. Family Medicine (FM) and psychosomatic medicine have many similarities in their community-based and family-based approaches. Studies have shown the necessity an...

Women are unexplainedly more affected than men by post-COVID-19 persistent symptoms. Depressive symptoms may partially explain these gender differences. In the French population-based CONSTANCES cohort, depressive symptoms were measured with the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) between April 6 and May 4, 2020. Between December 2020 and J...

Background Physicians in public health administration agencies (public health physicians: PHP) play important roles in public health; however, there are not enough such physicians in Japan. This study aimed to elucidate the factors related to the resignation and migration of PHPs using nationwide survey data. Methods Data from the Survey of Physic...

Background We aimed to assess coping and vegetative reactivity in uveal melanoma (UM) patients compared to controls with benign nevi of the uvea. Material and methods In total, 20 patients with recently diagnosed uveal melanoma were recruited and matched for age and gender to 20 controls with benign nevi of the uvea. Heart rate variability (HRV) a...

Background Non-cardiac chest pain is common and associated with increased anxiety and reduced health-related quality of life. Randomized controlled trials on psychological interventions for patients with non-cardiac chest pain have reported mixed results. Patients with non-cardiac chest pain are a heterogeneous group. Identifying sub-groups that co...

Background Avoidant paruresis is a common clinical condition in urology and psychosomatic medicine. However, it has limited treatment options that are safe and effective with few side effects. Aims Our study aimed to investigate the effectiveness and safety of the Chinese herbal Yangxin Tongquan decoction combined with cognitive–behavioural therap...

Zusammenfassung Henry Head ist vielen Neurolog*innen heute vor allem als Namensgeber der Head-Zonen bekannt. Das Konzept, das heute mehr in der Physiologie als in der inneren Medizin bzw. Psychosomatik gelehrt wird, wurde von Head aber höchstwahrscheinlich anders verstanden. Zudem kann als gesichert gelten, dass die Zeichnungen der Head-Zonen nicht...

Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel der Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie beschreibt Phänomene auf der körperlich-leiblichen Ebene. Anhand der intrauterinen Entwicklung werden die Rollenkonfigurationen auf der uteral-somatopsychischen Rollenebene zusammengefasst, um sie für Interventionen in der psychodramatischen Arbeit mit Erwachsenen geziel...

Zusammenfassung Schizophrene Psychosen sind aufgrund der Einführung von Antipsychotika vor ca. 70 Jahren in Verbindung mit der Implentierung spezifischer Psychotherapien heute deutlich besser behandelbar. Im Bereich der Negativsymptomatik und krankheitsassoziierten kognitiven Defiziten sind die aktuellen Behandlungsmöglichkeiten jedoch weiter limit...

As an epidemic disease, obesity is on the rise globally, seriously jeopardizing human health. China now has the largest overweight or obese population in the world. In addition to causing the typical physical symptoms of obesity, obesity is often accompanied by a variety of psychosomatic diseases, which are not only closely related to health behavi...

The talk gives an overview of current clinical and research challenges in psychosomatic medicine.

Introduction: Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 are increasingly used in medicine and medical education. However, these models are prone to "hallucinations" - outputs that sound convincing while being factually incorrect. It is currently unknown how these errors by LLMs relate to the different cognitive levels defined in Bloom's Taxonomy....

Introduction: Previous studies that focused on socioeconomic differences did not comprehensively explain existing inequalities in psychosomatic rehabilitation in Germany. We applied a social milieu approach, which additionally includes sociocultural factors such as lifestyles, attitudes and values, to investigate differences among patients in sympt...

Background Few studies have examined the economic costs of outpatient care for eating disorders in Japan. This study aimed to clarify the reimbursement for outpatient treatment of eating disorders and compare the costs between the departments of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychiatry in Japan. Method A multicenter, prospective, observational study...

Background At an individual level, physician resilience protects against burnout and against its known negative effects on individual physicians, patient safety, and quality of care. However, it remains uncertain whether physician resilience also correlates with maintaining a high level of healthcare quality during crises such as a pandemic. This s...

Background Reliable outcome data of psychosomatic inpatient and day hospital treatment with a focus on psychotherapy are important to strengthen ecological validity by assessing the reality of mental health care in the field. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of inpatient and day hospital treatment in German university departments of Ps...

Resumo O presente artigo problematiza aspectos afetivos inerentes à relação materno-filial que podem estar associados ao surgimento e estabelecimento de sintomas psicossomáticos de refluxo gastroesofágico no bebê de até 1 ano de idade. Para tanto, apresenta-se estudo de caso de uma díade mãe-bebê auxiliado por entrevista semiestruturada, aplicação...

Objective The aim of this study is to investigate the psychometric characteristics of outpatients diagnosed with somatic symptom disorder (SSD) in biomedical, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and psychosomatic settings. Materials and methods A total of 697 participants who completed SCID-5 and questionnaires were presented in our former study, a...

Introduction Functional neurological disorder (FND) presents motor, sensory, and cognitive symptoms characterized by clinical signs incongruent with known neurological disease. Together with other health professionals, like neurologists, psychiatrists can play an essential role in diagnosing and managing these disorders. Hence, understanding their...

Aim: Stigmatization by healthcare workers poses a challenge to providing care to the mentally ill. Bedside teaching during undergraduate medical education offers students an opportunity to directly interact with patients with a range of psychiatric disorders and thereby gather reflective experience. The present study investigates if this supervise...

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the treatment system of medical institutions across the world. Studies of the populations and patients have reported mental health problems caused by the pandemic. However, there are few large-scale studies that have examined the effects of the COVID-19 on diseases from the...

Background The clinical characteristics of chronic cough with pre-existing psychological co-morbidity (PCC) and chronic cough with secondary anxiety and depression (SCC) were compared to provide a basis for diagnosing and treating psychological co-morbidities in people with chronic cough. Methods A prospective study was conducted to analyze the ge...

Purpose To calibrate the item parameters of the German PROMIS® Pain interference (PROMIS PI) items using an item-response theory (IRT) model and investigate psychometric properties of the item bank. Methods Forty items of the PROMIS PI item bank were collected in a convenience sample of 660 patients, which were recruited during inpatient rheumatol...

Objective: The classification of anorexia nervosa (AN) into subtypes is relevant due to their different symptomatology. However, subtypes (restricting type: AN-R; purging type: AN-P) differ also in terms of their personality functioning. Knowledge about these differences would allow for better treatment stratification. A pilot study indicated diff...

Se analiza la perspectiva emocional de la relación médico-paciente y la confianza propia de esta interrelación, a través de publicaciones y relatos médicos de Michael Balint, Kevin Browne y Paul Freeling, aparecidos en la década de 1960. Balint promovió en la clínica Tavistock (Londres) los llamados ‘Grupos Balint’ en los que participaron Browne y...

During the Continuation War of 1941–1944, Finnish medical experts began to encounter military patients suffering from chest pains, breathlessness, palpitations, fatigue, and many other symptoms which could not be explained by somatic findings. In the history of medicine, these symptoms and a plethora of associated diagnoses (such as ‘Da Costa syndr...

Na prática clínica quotidiana, a Psiquiatria de Ligação e Consultoria (PLC) é frequentemente chamada a participar no esclarecimento e resolução de situações com implicações clínicas e éticas desafiantes. No entanto, a formação dos profissionais dedicados a esta subespecialidade não pressupõe um treino diferenciado em Ética Clínica comparativamente...

The foundation of a German Society of Biological Psychiatry (DGBP) was initiated at the Second World Congress of Biological Psychiatry of the WFSBP in Barcelona in 1978. Its mission was and is to promote interdisciplinary research on the biology of mental disorders and to translate results of biological research into clinical practice. During the p...

Background: Major depressive disorder in adolescents is characterized by high prevalence rate, high recurrence rate, high suicide rate and high disability rate. However, the recognition rate and cure rate are low, and the disease has a very bad influence on the family and society. The lack of psychiatrists and psychotherapists in villages and smal...

عرف موضوع الألكسيتيميا انتشارا واسعا في الآونة الأخيرة، حيث تناولته العديد من الدراسات والأبحاث، كونه يعد متغيرا هاما وأساسيا في مجال الممارسة الإكلينيكية والطب النفس جسدي، ذلك لأنه يمثل عامل استعداد للعديد من الاضطرابات النفسية والأمراض السيكوسوماتية. وعلى هذا الأساس، جاءت هذه الورقة العلمية محاولة إماطة الغموض عن هذا المصطلح، بعرض بعض المعطيات ال...

Background The high prevalence rates of mental disorders in China contrast a comparatively low care capacity from qualified trained medical doctors in the mental health field. The main objective of our cooperation project was to develop and implement advanced postgraduate training for medical doctors for their acquisition of knowledge, skills, and...

Introduction The link between anxiety disorders and joint hypermobility syndrome (now under hypermobility spectrum disorders, which include hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome) has been widely replicated over the past 30 years and has grown beyond the initial nosological limits. To integrate clinical and research progress in this field, a new neuroc...

Background and objectives: Delirium is the most prevalent psychiatric disorder in inpatient older people. Its presence is associated with higher rates of institutionalization, functional disability and mortality. This study aims to evaluate delirium in a hospitalized psychogeriatric population, focusing on which factors predict the appearance of de...

This article traces the career, scientific achievements, and emigration of the Berlin-born physician, psychoanalyst, and psychosomatic researcher Eric Wittkower. Trained in Berlin and practicing internal medicine, he became persecuted by the Nazi regime and, after fleeing Germany via Switzerland, continued his professional career in the United King...

Background Psychosocial support is a crucial component of adequate rare disease care, but to date psychosocial support needs of this patient population are insufficiently met. Within Q.RARE.LI, we strive to evaluate the effectiveness of a structured, transdiagnostic, and location-independent psychosocial support intervention in routine care of pati...

This article is an answer to a report called “What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being?” The authors conclude that the arts have an impact on mental and physical health. Yet, the question of the role of the arts remains unanswered. What is and what is not an art effect? Recently, embodied theory has inspired a...

Objective: Aim: Evaluation of the effectiveness of the early 8-week monotherapy with escitalopram as a form of proactive psychosomatic intervention for patients with post-COVID depression. Patients and methods: Materials and methods: 44 patients with post-COVID depression were involved in a proactive psychosomatic intervention in the form of an...

Somatic burden has become one of the most common psychological reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. This study examined the prevalence of somatic burden, latent profiles, and associated factors of somatic symptoms during the pandemic in a large sample of Russians. We used cross-sectional data from 10,205 Russians collected during October-D...

The Giessen Subjective Complaints List (GBB-8) is an 8-item self-report measure of somatic symptoms. Originally developed in German and then validated in English, it was designed for measuring eight of the most frequently assessed somatic complaints in four categories (exhaustion, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and cardiovascular complaints). T...

Introduction General internists in Japanese hospitals sometimes consult on adolescents. Our university hospital encounters more adolescents with mental health complaints than other city hospitals. Consequently, based on our experience, we hypothesized that psychiatric disorders are significantly more common among teenagers who visit general interni...

Background Social relationships are associated with mortality and chronic conditions. However, little is known about the effects of social relationship satisfaction on multiple chronic conditions (multimorbidity). Aims To examine whether social relationship satisfaction is associated with the accumulation of multimorbidity. Methods Data from 7 69...

Hintergrund: Das Wissen um die Relevanz von Bewegung für somatische als auch für psychische Erkrankungen ist in den letzten Jahren sehr gestiegen (Kleinschmidt & Köllner, 2021). So zeigt sich bereits ein positiver Zusammenhang zu einzelnen psychischen Erkrankungen, wie Depressivität oder Angststörung (Oertel-Knöchel, Mehler & Hänsel, 2016). Gleichz...

The implementation status of clinical guidelines is, despite their important role in connecting research with practice, frequently not satisfactory. This study aims to investigate the implementation status of the current German guideline for schizophrenia. Moreover, the attitude toward a living guideline has been explored for the first time by pres...

Zusammenfassung In den vergangenen 5 Jahren hat sowohl das mediale als auch das wissenschaftliche Interesse an der Erkrankung myalgische Enzephalomyelitis/„chronic fatigue syndrome“ (ME/CFS) signifikant zugenommen; nicht zuletzt auch durch die klinisch ähnliche Manifestation im Rahmen von Long- oder Post-COVID. In dieser Übersichtsarbeit diskutiere...

Background Evidence indicates that medical students have had high rates of mental health problems, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, which could be affected by alexithymia—a marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment and interpersonal relationships—and stress. However, psychological resilience might relieve alexithymia and...

Background Internet-based mental health interventions are considered effective in providing low-threshold support for people with mental health disorders. However, there is a lack of research investigating the transferability of such online programs into routine care settings. Low treatment adherence and problems with technical implementation often...

We aimed to explore a new treatment model for type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) based on rhythm regulation under the framework of psychosomatic medicine. Using psychotropics as rhythm regulators, 178 patients with DM were evaluated and divided into three groups: the antidiabetic treatment group (AT group), psychotropic treatment group (PT group), and c...

Źródło: Larionow, P., Mudło-Głagolska, K., Michalak, M. (2022). Towards psychosomatic medicine: Psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Giessen Subjective Complaints List (GBB-8) and the prevalence of somatic symptoms in a Polish community sample. Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio J, Paedagogia-Psychologia, 35(4), 1...

Type D personality individual patient data meta-analysis: manuscript accepted for publication in psychosomatic medicine

Background Advancements in research have confirmed that gut microbiota can influence health through the microbiota–gut–brain axis. Meditation, as an inner mental exercise, can positively impact the regulation of an individual’s physical and mental health. However, few studies have comprehensively investigated faecal microbiota following long-term (...

Zusammenfassung Naturheilkunde und Urologie berühren sich in der Gegenwart kaum, aber im viktorianischen Zeitalter war es eine Genitalmassage, die der Ärzteschaft verdeutlichte, dass eine auf die Erkrankungen des Unterleibs spezialisierte Ausbildung für Ärzte notwendig war, da ansonsten die Patientinnen Laienheilkundige aufsuchen würden und keine K...

This text is the thesis of the 3rd congress with international participation "Psychosomatic medicine of the 24th century: realities and prospects". The following is devoted to the study of the dynamics of the prevalence of chronic alcoholism in the Odesa region during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background The risk of major depressive disorder (MDD) and insomnia is higher in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) than in the general population. In addition, immune inflammation may be a shared aetiological factor for mental disorders and CHD. However, it is unclear whether MDD is associated with poor sleep quality and cell-mediated immu...

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund In Deutschland werden komplementärmedizinische Verfahren von bis zu 62% der Patienten genutzt, Art und Ausmaß dieser Versorgungsangebote im stationären Sektor sind jedoch nicht bekannt. Die Zielsetzung der Studie war es, eine Statuserhebung zu komplementärmedizinischen Verfahren mittels Screening der Internetauftritte al...

The article is detailed report from the psychosomatic conference (EAPM), which was held in Vienna in June 2022. The report is written in a form of essay, giving full details about the conference including the keynote speeches. It is also contextualised in the current political situation in Europe and compared with the situation of the psychosomatic...

Studying the emotional characteristics in people with psychosomatic disorders (PSD) at the early stages of disease development is a topical research area in psychosomatic medicine, as it allows clarifying the psychological mechanisms of PSD formation. This exploratory research aims to study the age features of emotional characteristics in people wi...

Introduction: Germany is one of the few countries with a medical specialty of psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy and many treatment resources of this kind. Objective: This observational study describes the psychosomatic treatment programs as well as a large sample of day-hospital and inpatients in great detail using structured diagnostic i...

Introduction Face-to-face medical and psychotherapeutic treatments during the Corona pandemic often involve patients and health care providers wearing face masks. We performed a pilot survey assessing the subjective experience of wearing face masks during psychotherapy sessions regarding (i) feasibility, (ii) psychotherapeutic treatment and (iii) c...

Psychosomatische Erklärungsmodelle haben ihren Ursprung in der Psychoanalyse und Tiefenpsychologie, der Medizinischen Anthropologie und der Psychophysiologie. Die Psychosomatik als Krankheits- und Behandlungslehre erforscht den Zusammenhang von psychischen Prozessen und solchen Erkrankungen, bei denen keine klare organische Grundlage ermittelt werd...

The World Health Organization defines psychosomatic medicine as “the study of biological, psychological and social variables in health and disease”. It is widespread across the globe, and it has a significant effect on the quality of life. Bioactive compounds exist in little quantities in foods and many medicinal and non-medicinal plants and show t...

Der vorliegende Essay soll drei verschiedene Medizintheorien vorstellen: Biomedizin, Psychosomatik und Biopsychosoziale Medizin (BPSM). Nach eingängiger Erläuterung der Stärken und Schwächen jedes Modells wird ein Vorschlag für eine einheitliche logische und semantische Biopsychosoziale Sprache (BPSS) gemacht, da die BPSM als derzeit kohärenteste T...

The co-occurrence of mental health issues in medical illness is a norm, rather than being an exception. Yet, mental health issues are mostly ignored by the sufferer and are often missed or deprioritized by the treating physician. These mental health comorbidities are crucial, as they impact a person’s overall functioning. Co-existing mental illness...

Background Presently, approaches for the early treatment of pathological anxiety in patients with chronic non-communicable diseases are lacking, thus delaying the initiation of symptom management at the early onset of the illness. Proactive psychological and psychiatric support, to alleviate subclinical symptoms of anxiety and to improve the qualit...

Psychosomatic Medicine: State of the science, clinical applications, model of care at the University Hospital Zurich and across Switzerland

COVID-19 had a tremendous effect on medical education. Most teaching sessions had to be shifted online, posing additional stress and potential isolation on medical students. However, it also offered the promotion of innovative digital teaching concepts. In this article, an approach to undergraduate mental health training is presented and evaluated....

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund und Fragestellung In einer von der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie (ÖGKJP) für die Neuropsychiatrie kuratierten Artikelserie erscheinen in einem Schwerpunktheft Arbeiten, die die kinder- und jugendpsychiatrische Versorgungslage zum Thema haben. Der vorlie...

Abstract Objective Using bipolar disorder (BD) as a control, we explored the possible developmental process of impaired glucose metabolism rhythm. Methods In total, 441 subjects (77, 162, 134, 54, and 14 in the pre-diabetes [pre-DM], DM, BD, BD + pre-DM, and BD + DM groups, respectively) and 160 controls were included. All subjects were assessed us...

Zusammenfassung. Fragestellung: Pädagogische und medizinische Institutionen betreuen Kinder und Jugendliche, um Aufsicht, Beschulung, Erziehung, Therapie und Schutz sicherzustellen. Gleichwohl sind Kinder in institutioneller Betreuung potenziellen Gefährdungsmomenten bezüglich Misshandlung und Missbrauch ausgesetzt. Methodik: Im Rahmen der Etablier...