PSYCHOSOMATICS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

Abstract

Integrative medicine represents a promising modern approach to examination and treatment of large population of patients managed by the specialists in psychosomatics and somatopsychiatry. In Russia, experience of teamwork is scarce and non-common. However, implementation of this model of work is encouraged by accumulating evidence of existence of common mechanisms of the development of numerous somatic diseases and psychiatric disorders.

Keywords

• psychosomatics
• somatopsychiatry
• clinical and pathogenetic inter-relations
• bimodal nature of the disorders
• integrative medicine