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Various mind–body control methods such as yoga, meditation, reiki, hypnosis, and music therapy could be mentioned as precursors of psychosomatic medicine in Iran.
But the first academic contacts with psychosomatic medicine can be traced back to the twenty-first century to the Iranian Journal of Higher Health (the first journal by biopsychosocial approach to medicine in Iran) and international congresses of 2008.
For development of psychosomatic medicine in Iran with a plenty of German faculties such as Freiburg and Ulm, and also Mental Health and Globalization in Iran, which was a 3-year (2009-2013) TOT program for health care professionals in coordination with Psychosomatic Department of Freiburg University, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, and Danesh-e-Tandorosti Institute.
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Afshar Zanjani, H., Goli, F., Goli, F. (2014). Psychosomatic Medicine in Iran. In: Fritzsche, K., McDaniel, S., Wirsching, M. (eds) Psychosomatic Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1022-5_19
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