International Journal of Homoeopathic Sciences

Generally the term psychophysiological disorder applies to the physical conditions in which events are closely related to bodily symptoms. They can be treated as the products after the biopsychosocial processes. From a psychophysiological standpoint a large number of physical problems have been studied including disorders of cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal and genitourinary systems and as well as the skin. The clinical and informal observations suggest the importance of psychophysiological factors in many of these disorders. Psychiatric morbidity is very common in patients with medical conditions, with a prevalence ranging from 20 to 67 percent depending on the illness. In the field of psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine has been an important area is study and is based on two basic assumptions i.e. there is a unity of body and mind and when considering disease states psychological factors must be taken into account. The concept of psychosomatic medicine has influenced the field of behavioural medicine which approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. Psychosomatic concepts influenced the complimentary emergence and alternative medicine, which mainly depends on examining the psychological factors in the health maintenance and in the field of holistic medicine, treating not just his or her illness but the whole patient. Psychosomatic concepts have a great contribution to medical care.