title: [Forty years of psychosomatic medicine. A historical retrospect (author's transl)].
abstract: The close interweaving of psychosocial and pathophysiological problems is emphasized with examples such as duodenal ulcer, the functional syndromes, psychogenic nanism, essential hypertension and even carcinoma. The increase in fatalities from coronary heart diseases, bronchial carcinoma, liver cirrhosis and road accidents confront us with the question of how far our industrial culture itself produces pathogenic factors. Medicine is therefore faced with the task of investigating the effects of human interreactions on health and disease. In so doing, medicine itself and the institutions it has created cannot be excluded. This is particularly true of internal medicine which, if it does not wish to withdraw from its traditional integrative duty, must cooperate still more closely with psychosomatic medicine.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010919:Placebos; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000150:complications; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000266:history*; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000503:physiopathology; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States; D014655:Vascular Resistance
chemical_list: D010919:Placebos
vernacular_title: 40 Jahre psychosomatische Medizin. Ein geschichtlicher Rückblick.