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Psychosomatic Illnesses Secondary to Drug Treatment

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Psychosomatic Medicine

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The influence of the Mind (psyche) on the dysfunction and disease in the body (soma) has been recognized for many years, dating from the era of the Greek and Roman civilizations. The observation that emotions had profound effects on the body had been dealt with by many scientific thinkers such as Freud, Hughlings-Jackson, Sherrington, Franz Alexander, Cannon, and Hans Selye to mention a few. This led to the concept of psychosomatic medicine which represents one of the major breakthroughs of the twentieth century medicine. It is now firmly established that there are reciprocal relationships among sociological, psychological and biological factors in maintaining health and in influencing the onset and course of diseases. Many practitioners believe that emotions are involved in every stage of illness, even though the importance of the emotional factors varies from one stage of the illness to the other. Swenson 1981, contends that “just as no man is an island unto himself, so no soma or medical illness can be identified as existing completely independent of the psyche”. Most physicians today advocate the psychosomatic or holistic approach to medical practice. This obviously developed from the clinical observations and humane concern for the sick individual.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Ottawa, Canada

    L. K. Oyewumi

  2. Specialty Clinics, The Royal Ottawa Hospital, 1145 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 7K4

    L. K. Oyewumi

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  1. Psychosomatic Service and Research, Champlain Valley Physicians, Hospital Medical Center, 12901, Plattsburgh, New York, USA

    Adam J. Krakowski M.D. (Chief) (Chief)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, 950 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Chase Patterson Kimball M.D. (Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine) (Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine)

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Oyewumi, L.K. (1983). Psychosomatic Illnesses Secondary to Drug Treatment. In: Krakowski, A.J., Kimball, C.P. (eds) Psychosomatic Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4496-4_33

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