Title |
History, aims and present structure of psychosomatic medicine in Germany
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Published in |
BioPsychoSocial Medicine, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1186/s13030-017-0120-x |
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Authors |
Hans-Christian Deter, Johannes Kruse, Stephan Zipfel |
Abstract |
Combining its two traditions of integrated psychosomatics in internal medicine and focusing on psychotherapeutic/psychiatric methods in many clinical fields, German psychosomatic medicine has developed well over the last decades. It benefits from its institutional independence and the progressive changes in health care. Clinically, disorder-oriented psychotherapy is a core method integrated with other modes of therapy. As a conceptual base for empirical research, non-reductionist accounts of the interactions of (sick) persons with their environment are most important. Germany has developed a model of Psychosomatic Medicine that has conceptualized and integrated psychotherapeutic methods into clinical practice and realized one way to practice bio-psycho-social medicine in the health care system of the country. |
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Finland | 1 | 25% |
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Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 25% |
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Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 22% |
Researcher | 4 | 9% |
Professor | 2 | 4% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 4% |
Other | 4 | 9% |
Unknown | 11 | 24% |
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Psychology | 5 | 11% |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 2% |
Other | 3 | 7% |
Unknown | 17 | 38% |