Integrative psychosomatics is a new approach to explaining
illnesses and how patients relate to their problems. This new
discipline draws on psychoanalysis, medicine and the neurosciences,
rather than solely on psychoanalysis, which has inspired all the
psychosomatic approaches until now. Amongst the fascinating and
compelling questions that this book raises are: how can we
understand an illness if we only analyse the psyche? How can we
understand patients if we only take account of their biological
data? Are hypochondriac problems generated by the mind, as some
doctors believe, or are the problems in fact more complex? The
author also considers whether traditional psychoanalysis and
medicine might actually distance practitioners from an
understanding of patients and illnesses. For integrative
psychosomatics, the psyche or the mind can play either a greater or
lesser role in illness: advances in research in the neurosciences
and biology over the last twenty years have uncovered many
biological and genetic processes involved in the relations between
the central nervous system and the other systems that constitute
the human psychosomatic entity. Consequently, we can now understand
illnesses much better and care for patients with regard to how they
relate to their illnesses.
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