You can really think of body and mind as separate entities?
To answer this question we must start from a basic assumption: there is approachable human being exclusively taking into account an optical biopsychic.
In order to better understand this statement would be useful to quote a phrase contained in the most recent editions of the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used internationally, " There is a lot of mental and physical disorders much physical mental disorders. " There is therefore a strong link between psychological factors and biological factors.
We think maybe because numerous occasions, and even physical illnesses have an impact on the psychological level in everyday life. Conversely, scientific research has attempted to show how they also found correlations between psychological and somatic illnesses. Often, stress, anxiety and depression can lead to diseases of interest purely medical disorders such as gastrointestinal or cardiovascular function.
Although psychosomatic born more than two centuries ago, perhaps only now is having a "major success".
central node of that discipline is stressed that the ills of psychic can then emerge through the discomfort of a physical nature.
clear duty to look at the "psychosomatic" from a dual perspective. First, by observing his object of study. It is manifold. Includes within it not only the so-called "psychosomatic" all those diseases of medical interest for which the psychological factor becomes an important cause, but also the so-called "somatoform disorders", where the conflict is moved and acted on psychic body, precisely the burden, taking various forms, such as somatization disorder.
Subjects suffering from the aforementioned disorder have a history of multiple physical problems started before age 30 and lasting at least two years during which they undergo extensive medical tests that have created a clinically significant distress and impairment in social and occupational functioning. The painful symptoms may be related to different areas of the body, from gastrointestinal to sexual than neurological. However, the aforementioned symptoms, after thorough medical examinations, are not explained by any medical condition while not intentionally produced or simulated by the patients themselves.
A second point of view as an approach to psychosomatic conil is represented by the particular sensitivity of the discipline against the relational dyad in patient - doctor. Hence descend to the particular attention paid to the sick person, not just as a patient but also as a person, the psychological characteristics of building relationships in the intervention and treatment; the expectations and the whole "moral" of the doctor-related.
in conclusion we can say that the psychosomatic currently has found greater success in the scientific landscape precisely because of his vision of the human being as a biopsychosocial entity and the importance attributed to the multifactorial genesis of a pathological phenomenon .
The human being is, therefore, contained within a biological context, psychological and social in which each disease is caused by a complexity of factors.
In this landscape is easy to understand how mind and body are not separate entities, in contrast between them is still possible to find a mutual relationship.
