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Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicossomática
2002
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- Psychosomatic medicine: alive and well in the new century Giovanni A. Fava Stefania Fabbri Carlotta Belaise Eliana Tossani Psicología Mind being body medicine Psychotherapy Quality of life Psychosomatic medicine provides acomprehensive framework for a holistic(biopsychosocial) consideration of patientcare encompassing the role of psychosocialfactors in affecting individual vulnerabilityto all types of diseases; the interactionbetween psychosocial and biologicalfactors in the course and outcome ofdisease and the application of psychologicaltherapies to the prevention, treatmentand rehabilitation of physical illness.This framework, modified from the oneoriginally proposed by Lipowski, willserve to highlight the areas where a psychosomaticintegration may have importantclinical and research implications.The same holistic mentality should alsobe applicable to the field of psychiatry. Inrecent years, a new way of integratingpharmacotherapy and psychotherapy indepression has been proposed (i.e. sequentialapproach), but, not surprisingly, nonpharmacological treatment strategieshave been swimming against the tide ofpharmaceutical propaganda. 2002 artículo científico 0874-4696 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=28740207 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=287 Revista Portuguesa de Psicossomática application/pdf Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicossomática Revista Portuguesa de Psicossomática (Portugal) Num.2 Vol.4