Somatic awareness in the clinical care of patients with body distress symptoms

Bibliographic Data

ID19536633
AuthorsDonald A Bakal (University of Calgary, corresponding author), Donald Bakal, Patrick G Coll (University of Calgary), Patrick Coll, Jeffrey P Schaefer (University of Calgary), Jeffrey Schaefer
Year2008
Volume2
Issue1
Pages6-6
Publication date2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBioPsychoSocial Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-0759 • E-ISSN: 1751-0759
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/1751-0759-2-6
PMID18291028
PMCIDPMC2288613
OpenAlexW2088812413
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited23

The purpose of this paper is to provide primary care physicians and medical specialists with an experiential psychosomatic framework for understanding patients with body distress symptoms. The framework relies on somatic awareness, a normal part of consciousness, to resolve the dualism inherent in conventional multidisciplinary approaches. Somatic awareness represents a guiding healing heuristic which acknowledges the validity of the patient's physical symptoms and uses body sensations to identify the psychological, physiological, and social factors needed for symptom self-regulation. The experiential approach is based on psychobiologic concepts which include bodily distress disorder, central sensitization, dysfunctional breathing, and contextual nature of mood

Biopsychosocial model · Distress · Dysfunctional family · Mood · Multidisciplinary approach · Psychiatry · Psychosomatic medicine · Psychosomatics · Psychotherapist · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

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