Psychosomatic Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

   PDF

2. Holistic Concepts of Illness in Ancient Greece and in Contemporary Medicine

   1. Holistic Concepts of Illness in Ancient Greece and in Contemporary Medicine

      • Peter Novak

      Pages 1-5

3. The Semantics of Whole-Person Care

   1. The Semantics of Whole-Person Care

      • Margaret J. Christie

      Pages 7-13

4. Doctor-Patient Relationship

   1. Doctor-Patient Relationship

      • O. Gardikas

      Pages 15-20

5. “Emotions” and Difficulties in Teaching and Communication

   1. “Emotions” and Difficulties in Teaching and Communication

      • P. E. Sifneos

      Pages 21-25

6. The Mind-Body Problem

   1. The Mind-Body Problem in Philosophy

      • Nicholas Dimou

      Pages 27-34

   2. Mind-Matter Relations: Do They Matter in Psychosomatics?

      • Adolf-Ernst Meyer

      Pages 35-41

7. Historical Aspects

   1. Psychosomatic Concepts in Writings of Ancient Greek Philosophers (VIth to IIIrd Cent. B.C.)

      • Gerasimos A. Rigatos, Demosthenes B. Scarlos

      Pages 43-46

   2. Historical Insights of Psychosomatic Medicine in Heidelberg

      • Th. Henkelmann, P. Hahn

      Pages 47-52

   3. Viktor von Weizsäcker (1886–1957) and German Psychosomatic Medicine

      • W. Eich, P. Hahn

      Pages 53-57

8. Psychosomatics and Medical History

   1. Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical History: Frederic Chopin — A Psychosomatic Case ?

      • A. J. Karenberg

      Pages 59-63

9. Papers on General Topics

   1. Personality Characteristics in Psychosomatic Illness

      • G. C. Lyketsos, C. G. Lyketsos

      Pages 65-72

   2. Family Interaction and Somatic Illness: Implications from the Finnish Adoptive Family Study

      • P. Tienari, A. Sorri, I. Lahti, M. Naarala, J. Moring, T. Rönkkö et al.

      Pages 73-79

   3. Life Events as Triggering and Formative Agents in Physical Disease

      • T. K. J. Craig

      Pages 81-88

   4. Occupational Correlates of the Type a Behaviour Pattern

      • D. G. Byrne

      Pages 89-97

   5. Psychophysiological Models of Psychosomatic Illness

      • A. D. Rabavilas

      Pages 99-104

10. Psychosomatic Approach and Health Services

    1. Psychosomatic Approach of Norwegian Health Services

       • Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg

       Pages 105-107

    2. The Psychosomatic Approach and the Health Services in West Germany

       • Peter Novak

       Pages 109-110

    3. The Psychosomatic Approach in France

       • P. F. Chanoit

       Pages 111-115

    4. Influence of the Psychosomatic Approach in the Planning and Work of the Health Service in the United Kingdom

       • David Sturgeon

       Pages 117-119

This book contains selected contributions to the 16th European Conference on Psychosomatic Research, held in Athens from September 6 to 11, 1986. The ~t of psychosomatic medicine was one of the two basic topics of the meeting. We thought that, since this topic has a touch of history in it, it would be appropriate for a conference held in Greece. It is really amazing how advanced the psychosomatic conceptions of the ancient Greek philosophers and physicians were. It was the basic psychosomatic ideology that Socrates was expressing when he taught: "S"lOTT!::P O

• a longitudinal psychosomatic study
• behaviour pattern
• current psychosomatic research
• doctor-patient relationship
• epidemiological study
• formative agents
• health services
• medical history
• microprolactinomas
• neurotic patients
• psychosomatic illness
• psychosomatic issues
• psychosomatic research
• somatic illness
• the bulimic obese: treatment response

• Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece

  George N. Christodoulou

Policies and ethics