Etiology of neuroses and psychosomatic diseases: traditional representations and modern concepts
AUTHORS : Elfimov M.A.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Federal State Institution “State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry named
after V.P. Serbsky Roszdrav”, Department of Rehabilitation Problems of the Department
border psychiatry, Moscow
YEAR : 2010
WITH positions traditional medicine, etiology neuroses and psychosomatic diseases are factors of mental stress, which are related to the internal causes of the
disease and lead to impaired circulation of energy. Within the framework of the traditional medical paradigm, psychosomatic disorders are the result of a combination of three factors: emotional disturbance in the activity of internal organs; “Stagnant”, tonic muscle tension, which is a residual
phenomenon of unreacted emotions; negative reflex influence. The likelihood of the onset of the disease is strictly individual and is determined by the person’s temperament and age. Modern science defines stress as a general nonspecific adaptive response that has developed in the process
of evolution in response to stress factors. It includes stress-implementing and stress-limiting
mechanisms, aimed at maintaining the homeostasis of the body.
