title: [Methodologic aspects of the body-mind problem in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy].
abstract: Adequate research strategies in Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy require a variety of different epistemological approaches. This paper emphasizes to replace the dichotomy between nomological explanation of physical processes versus intentional understanding of psychological phenomena by a combination of the discrimination between psyche and soma and the discrimination between causal explanation and intentional understanding. As a result there are four categories of research: scientific research in biological objects, nomological research in psychological phenomena, ideographic and qualitative research in psychological phenomena, and holistic-systemic research in biological phenomena. The relationship of research results from one of these paradigms to results from another paradigm will be discussed at the end of the article.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Frommer
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D011603:Psychophysiology; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012106:Research
vernacular_title: Methodologische Aspekte des Leib-Seele-Problems in Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie.