Psychosomatic research has advanced over the past decades in dealing with complex
biopsychosocial phenomena and may provide new effective modalities of patient care …

Context Demoralization can be understood as a condition that results from existential
conflict. It presents with symptoms of hopelessness and helplessness caused by a loss of …

Considerable individual differences exist in trait-like patterns of behavioral and physiological
responses to salient environmental challenges. This individual variation in stress coping …

BackgroundDemoralization has been described as a psychological state characterized by
helplessness, hopelessness, a sense of failure and the inability to cope. MethodsWe …

Demoralization is a complex clinical phenomenon which has raised a growing interest in
clinical and research realms. The present systematic review of the literature aimed at (1) …

Abstract The Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) were introduced in
1995 by an international group of investigators to expand the traditional domains of the …

Despite spectacular advances, modern medicine faces formidable global challenges in
several key areas—notably the persistence of major killer diseases such as malaria …

Abstract Background: The Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) are a set
of 12 psychosomatic syndromes and are provided with a reliable diagnostic structured …

The impact of psychological factors on somatic disorders–and vice versa–and the
involvement of biological mechanisms in psychic disorders have generated considerable …

The Diagnostic and Statistical of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) somatic symptom
and related disorders chapter has a limited clinical utility. In addition to the problems that the …