Why We Need Psychosomatic Medicine?

To improve the psychiatric care of patients with complex medical, surgical, obstetrical and neurological conditions

(American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) March 2003)

What Kind of Patient Who Come To Psychosomatic Clinic ?

• Patients with an acute or chronic medical, neurological, or surgical illness in which psychiatric morbidity is actively affecting their medical care and/or quality of life.

• Patients with a somatoform disorder or with psychological factors affecting a physical condition (“psychosomatic condition”), regardless of the presence or absence of a co-morbid medical illness;

• Patients with a psychiatric disorder that is the direct consequence of a primary medical condition(s), as defined in the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). e.g., Delirium, Dementia, “Organic brain disorder”