Psychosomatic aspects of changes in body weight during a long sea voyage.
The author, on the basis of his investigations, have shown the relationship between body weight changes and mental disease morbidity and other mechanism of adaptation to conditions of a long sea voyage. In author's opinion changes in body weight are an important adaptational mechanisms in conditions of long sea voyage. This mechanism is based on feedbacks in which dominated psychic mechanisms in the form of changes in personality dimensions. If the free regulation of the body homeostasis is disturbed and cannot be corrected by the body weight changes and personality dimensions then a further escalation of disturbances in homeostasis will lead to psychic or psychosomatic diseases.
D001007:Anxiety; D001835:Body Weight; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009326:Naval Medicine; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology