PSYCHO

SOMATIC er
s o rd
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Psychosomatic [Greek]
Psyche : “to breath”
Soma : “body”

Heinroth first use the word in 1818

Alexander FG, Selesnick ST: The History of Psychiatry. New York, Harper & Row, 1966.
Johann Christian August Heinroth:

(1773-1843)

Psychosomatic medicine
80 years before Freud
One should not undertake
to heal the body
without the soul

Platon (423 -347 BC)

 Hippocrates Galen
(460 – 377 BC) (129 – 199 BC)
'create an independent reasonable human
being' who should devote himself to God and
live a life according to religion ethics. To
fulfil this task the soul uses the mood, the
mind and the will as its powers in order to
take command over the body which 'obeys the
laws of this forming power unconsciously'

“All mental illnesses are ‘disorders of the soul’ - Heinroth

The diagnostic criteria given in DSM (Diagnostic Statistic
Manual)-IV for psychosomatic disorders are:

"The factors have influenced the course of the general

medical condition as shown by a close temporal
association bertween the psychological factors and the
development or exacerbation of or delayed recovery from,
the general medical condition, the factors interfere with
the treatment of general medical condition, the factors
constitute additional health risk for the individual, stress
related physiological responses precipitate or exacerbate
symptoms of the general medical condition."
Islamic Perspective of Human Being

There is a piece of flesh in the body

if it becomes good (reformed) the
whole body becomes good but if it
gets spoilt the whole body gets
spoilt and that is the heart.

- Rasulullah saw