06140 - Psychosomatics

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to develop in the students a basic knowledge for the understanding of the basic concepts of psychosomatic medicine and explore the main clinical and therapeutic guidelines.

Course contents

- Historical evolution of the main psychosomatic topics and their interpretation

- The multidimensional model of illness in psychosomatic. The somatization process: psychological and cognitive mechanisms

- Personality and illness vulnerability: type A behavior, type C personality, alexithymia

- Stress and life events: their clinical measurement

- Physiopathology of stress induced reactions with psychoneuroendocrinology elements

- Methods and instruments in psychosomatic research

- The clinical interview in psychosomatic

- Assessment and measurement instruments in psychosomatic

- Clinical psychosomatic:

• functional disorders between normality and pathology
• psychosomatic pathology in DSM-IV and ICD-10
• the DCPR
• psychosomatic syndromes: eating, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, respiratory, urogenital and locomotion disorders
• psychosomatic dermatology
• chronic pain
• burnout
• mobbing

-   Therapeutical approaches in psychosomatic

Readings/Bibliography

Essential textbook: 

Grandi S., Rafanelli C., Fava G.A., Manuale di Psicosomatica, Roma: Il Pensiero Scientifico, 2011.

Trombini G., Baldoni F., Psicosomatica, Bologna: Mulino, 1999.

Baldoni F., La prospettiva psicosomatica, Bologna: Mulino, 2010.

Additional readings:

Fava G. A., Freyberger H., Psychosomatic Medicine, Madison: C. T. International Universities Press, 1998.

- Ercolani M., Malati di dolore : aspetti medici e psicologici del paziente con dolore cronico, Bologna: Zanichelli, 1997.

- Trombini G. (a cura di), Come logora curare : medici e psicologi sotto stress, Bologna: Zanichelli, 1994.

- Solano L., Tra mente e corpo: come si costruisce la salute, Milano: Raffaello Cortina, 2001.

- Todarello O., Porcelli P., Psicosomatica come paradosso: il problema della psicosomatica in psicoanalisi, Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1992.

- Kellner R., Psychosomatic syndromes and somatic symptoms, Washington: American Association Press, 1991.

 

Teaching methods

Lectures with clinical cases exemplifications and playing.

Assessment methods

Assessment methods:

The final evaluation will consist in a written exam with open ended questions aimed to assess the student's knowledge regarding the topics included in the textbook and discussed in class.

Teaching tools

Slides, PC, slide projector, overhead projector.

Links to further information

http://servizi.psice.unibo.it/docenti/

Office hours

See the website of Silvana Grandi