TY - JOUR
KW - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
KW - Humans
KW - Interprofessional Relations
KW - Psychiatry
KW - Psychosomatic Medicine
KW - Referral and Consultation
KW - Somatoform Disorders/diagnosis/psychology
AU - G. A. Fava
AU - C. Belaise
AU - N. Sonino
A1 - 
AB - There is controversy surrounding the term psychosomatic. If it is used as an equivalent of consultation liaison psychiatry, there is little justification for retaining it. Psychosomatic medicine, however, may be defined as a comprehensive interdisciplinary framework for the assessment of psychosocial factors affecting individual vulnerability, course, and outcome of any type of disease; holistic consideration of patient care in clinical practice; and integration of psychological therapies in the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of medical disease. Psychosomatic medicine has developed several clinimetric tools for assessing psychosocial variables in the setting of medical disease and has raised the need for specific evaluations in medical assessment. The term psychosomatic medicine today seems to be more timely than ever and provides a home for innovative and integrative thinking at the interface of behavioral and medical sciences.
BT - Current psychiatry reports
C5 - Medically Unexplained Symptoms
CP - 3
CY - United States
DO - 10.1007/s11920-010-0112-z
IS - 3
JF - Current psychiatry reports
N2 - There is controversy surrounding the term psychosomatic. If it is used as an equivalent of consultation liaison psychiatry, there is little justification for retaining it. Psychosomatic medicine, however, may be defined as a comprehensive interdisciplinary framework for the assessment of psychosocial factors affecting individual vulnerability, course, and outcome of any type of disease; holistic consideration of patient care in clinical practice; and integration of psychological therapies in the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of medical disease. Psychosomatic medicine has developed several clinimetric tools for assessing psychosocial variables in the setting of medical disease and has raised the need for specific evaluations in medical assessment. The term psychosomatic medicine today seems to be more timely than ever and provides a home for innovative and integrative thinking at the interface of behavioral and medical sciences.
PP - United States
PY - 2010
SN - 1535-1645; 1523-3812
SP - 215
EP - 221
EP - 
T1 - Psychosomatic medicine is a comprehensive field, not a synonym for consultation liaison psychiatry
T2 - Current psychiatry reports
TI - Psychosomatic medicine is a comprehensive field, not a synonym for consultation liaison psychiatry
U1 - Medically Unexplained Symptoms
U2 - 20425283
U3 - 10.1007/s11920-010-0112-z
VL - 12
VO - 1535-1645; 1523-3812
Y1 - 2010
ER -