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Psychosomatic Medicine in the Seventies

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Psychosomatic medicine as a scientific discipline and an approach to medical practice has staged a spectacular comeback. After seeming to be dormant, if not extinct, for almost two decades, it is once more in the mainstream of contemporary medicine and thought. The problem of assessing the relative contribution of psychological, biological, and social factors to the development, course, and outcome of physical and psychiatric disorders has regained a dominant position in both medicine and psychiatry. Psychosomatic medicine has provided them with a relevant set of theoretical assumptions and a long tradition of addressing the mind-body problem in research and clinical practice. The field has grown rapidly in breadth, complexity, and diversity. It has attempted to answer very old questions about human health and disease with the aid of modern investigative methods. Its current revival seems to mark the twilight of the golden age of reductionism, of an intolerant and narrow approach to the study and treatment of disease from a purely biological, psychological, or social viewpoint.

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Lipowski, Z.J. (1977). Psychosomatic Medicine in the Seventies. In: Psychosomatic Medicine and Liaison Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2509-3_4

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