title: Epilogue: meditations on psychosomatic medicine.
abstract: Presented are some personal views on the state of psychosomatic medicine as a science. It is suggested that the field needs more precision in language including exorcism of value judgments from certain dimensions, less circularity in stress-strain reasoning, more complex hypotheses, more emphasis on social support as a central variable and more acceptance of divergent research styles.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine; D012107:Research Design; D012931:Social Environment; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014825:Vocabulary