Prospects of Psychosomatic Medicine

doi:10.1186/1751-0759-3-1

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Prospects of Psychosomatic Medicine

Gen Komaki¹ , Yoshiya Moriguchi¹^,2 , Tetsuya Ando¹ , Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi³ and Mutsuhiro Nakao⁴^,5

¹Department of Psychosomatic Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan

²Department of Psychology, Boston College, Boston, USA

³Department of Stress Sciences and Psychosomatic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

⁴Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan

⁵Division of Psychosomatic Medicine, Teikyo University Hospital, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan

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BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2009, 3:1doi:10.1186/1751-0759-3-1


Published:	22 January 2009

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Looking back on the history of the psychosomatic medicine in Japan, the focus of our scientific research and medical practice was, at first, the elucidation of the psychosomatic correlation between a patient's neurosis and physical complaints. We then moved in the direction of physical disorders – psychosomatic diseases – in which psychosocial factors were closely involved in the onset and course. We have always advocated the importance of a comprehensive medical approach to the whole person for such physical disorders.