Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Description: This cluster of papers focuses on the study of interoception, the sense of the internal state of the body, and its association with somatic symptoms, including alexithymia, health anxiety, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, and depersonalization disorder. The papers also explore the relationship between interoception, emotion regulation, and various mental health conditions such as anxiety and dissociation.
Characteristic keywords: psychosomatic medicine, psychosomatic disorders, alexithymia, conversion disorder, somatization, hysteria, somatoform disorders, somatic symptom disorder, dissociative disorders, health anxiety, psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, psychosomatic symptoms, dissociative identity disorder, factitious disorder, medically unexplained symptoms, interoception, Toronto Alexithymia Scale, functional somatic symptoms, Munchausen syndrome, somatization disorder, psychosomatic treatment, dissociative symptoms, psychosomatic pain, psychodermatology, functional disorders
Sibling topics: Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Schizophrenia research and treatment, Epilepsy research and treatment, Sexual function and dysfunction studies, Migraine and Headache Studies, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research, Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies, Empathy and Medical Education, Neurological Complications and Syndromes, Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, Medicine, History, and Philosophy
Parent subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
OpenAlex ID: T11334