Psychosomatic Approach in Medicine

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

Physical, emotional, and social factors, in verying proportions, play a role in every illness. The doctor’s task is to recognize not only the organic components but also the psychosocial processes involved in the disease and to take these into account. Only in the framework of a psychosocial anamnesis, psychosocial stressors can be identified by the doctor.

Psychosomatic medicine examines the definition, constructs, and dilemmas that confront professionals working at the interface of medicine and psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and consultation-liaison psychiatry. Psychosomatic medicine can be described as well as the subspecialty of psychiatry that focuses on medical and psychiatric comorbidity.

The course is intended to define key problems of psychosomatic medicine and provides methods of diagnosis and treatment.

One of the interesting aspects of the course is that it also consistently addresses the cultural aspects of psychosomatic disorders.

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

• 1. Introduction - Tiringer István
• 2. Introduction - Tiringer István
• 3. Stress and Disease - Tiringer István
• 4. Stress and Disease - Tiringer István
• 5. Doctor-Patient Communication - Tiringer István
• 6. Doctor-Patient Communication - Tiringer István
• 7. Depression - Tiringer István
• 8. Depression in the general medical practice - Tiringer István
• 9. Anxiety Disorders - Tiringer István
• 10. Anxiety Disorders in the general medical practice - Tiringer István
• 11. Somatic Symptom Disorder - Tiringer István
• 12. Somatic Symptom Disorder - Tiringer István
• 13. Heart Disease - Tiringer István
• 14. Heart Disease - Tiringer István
• 15. Gastrointestinal Disorders - Tiringer István
• 16. Gastrointestinal Disorders - Tiringer István
• 17. Oncology - Tiringer István
• 18. Oncology - Tiringer István
• 19. Chronic pain - Tiringer István
• 20. Chronic pain - Tiringer István
• 21. Practitioner Well-being - Tiringer István
• 22. Practitioner Well-being - Tiringer István
• 23. Summary - Tiringer István
• 24. Test - Tiringer István

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Neptun MeetStreet

Notes

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Recommended literature

Ayers, de Visser: Psychology for Medicine. Section III. SAGE Publications, London, 2018

Llewellin C.D. et al.: Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine. Cambridge. 2019. ISBN: 9781316783269
Kurt Fritzsche, Susan H. McDaniel, Michael Wirsching (Ed.): Psychosomatic Medicine. An International Guide for the Primary Care Setting. Springer, 2020

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Presenting the basic aspects of an optional psychosomatic disorder

Absence: max. 15% of seminars

Examination: Multiple Choice Test

Mid-term exams

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Making up for missed classes

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Exam topics/questions

History of Psychosomatic Medicine

Psychophysiology and psychoneuroimmunology

Mood Disorders and Insomnia in the General Medical Setting

Anxiety in the General Medical Setting

Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

Cardiovascular Disease

Oncology

Gastrointestinal Disease

Pulmonary Disease

Pain and Palliative Care

Strategies to Improve Coping and Manage Maladaptive Behaviors in the General Medical Setting

Managing difficult doctor-patient relationships. Balint-group.

Psychotherapy in the General Medical Setting

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Tiringer István