The general practitioner does not find an organic cause for the complaints of more than 20 percent of all patients – often the actual disease triggers can be found when taking a closer look at the individual psychological and social factors. What is meant by psychosomatics? Psychosomatics is the study of diseases that manifest themselves … Psychosomatics: the Interaction of Soul and Body
Sigmund Freud’s explanatory model assumes that unconscious conflicts escape consciousness through repression and then present themselves physically. As a result, the physical symptom becomes a symbol of the psychological conflict. This conversion (psychic becomes physical) often affects the sense organs (blindness, ringing in the ears, dizziness) or the motor system (paralysis, muscle spasms). Max Schur, … Psychosomatics: Origins and Treatment
In the past, one separated diseases in which one suspected psychological triggers and in which one could detect a physical change, e.g. under the microscope, from diseases in which no physical damage could be diagnosed despite all examination methods. Today, this classification has been abandoned, so that the field of psychosomatic diseases has broadened considerably. … Psychosomatics: Psychosomatic Diseases
