title: [On the relationship of psychosomatic and mind-body medicine: integrative, complementary or alternative disciplines within an evolutionary approach?].
abstract: The text outlines the relation between psychosomatic medicine as an established medical discipline and the emerging concept of mind-body medicine from a historical, clinical and epistemological perspective. Limitations and contributions of both disciplines are discussed and the opportunities within the concept of Integrative Medicine are outlined. Whereas psychosomatic medicine is perceived as a form of transformation through a primarily verbal discoursive relationship, mind-body medicine claims healing through increased traditional techniques of the relaxation response, increased awareness, mindfulness, increasing des-identification and health-promoting lifestyle modification. It becomes clear that mind-body medicine seems to be epistemologically the broader theoretical framework, whereas in a clinical context the combination of both disciplines appears to be complementary and synergistic. The connection between psychosomatic medicine and mind-body medicine can make an important and exemplary contribution to the concept of Integrative Medicine.
authors.affiliation: Diakonie Kliniken Zschadrass, Klinik und Poliklinik für Integrative Psychiatrie und Psychosomatik, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus, Colditz, Deutschland. brunnhuber.cor@gmxpro.de
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brunnhuber
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Michalsen
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D055048:Integrative Medicine / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D026441:Mind-Body Therapies / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends