title: [Palliative psychosomatic medicine].
abstract: Psychotherapeutic medicine, the area of medicinal specialisation dealing with the foundations of psychosomatic medicine, so far dealt mostly with diagnosis and therapy of acute diseases. The course of illness in patients with bio-psycho-social disorders however ist most often chronic. Sigmund Freud the founder of scientific psychotherapy himself was a patient in palliative care for 26 years and underwent over 30 surgical procedures to treat his carcinoma of the palate and jaw. Some goals and psychotherapeutic strategies of intervention that can be used in palliative psychosomatic medicine are laid out. This important field has in itself so far not reached a wide spread recognition and there are hardly any theoretical concepts or empirical validation to be found.
authors.affiliation: Werner-Schwidder-Klinik für Psychosomatische und Psychotherapeutische Medizin.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Rosin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000266:history; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000266:history; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Palliativmedizin in der Psychosomatik.