title: Psychosomatic medicine and cybernetics.
abstract: In our daily psychosomatic medicine clinics, we have adopted four principles from Wiener's cybernetics and von Bertalanffy's general system theory. We use the polygraphic method for the diagnosis of psychosomatic disease (black box principle). For the control of psychosomatic symptoms, we use the biofeedback method (feedback principle). We use systematic desensitization to relieve social stresses which cause psychosomatic disease (open and closed system principle). And lastly, transactional analysis, which corresponds to the information and energy principle.
mesh_terms: D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D003491:Cybernetics; D006801:Humans; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy