英文摘要 |
This article aims to introduce the concept evolution of psychosomatic medicine and the meaning of consultation-liaison psychiatry. The term, psychosomatic, was coined by Heinroth a German professor of psychiatry, in 1818. However, the theory of modern psychosomatic medicine was originated from Freud’s psychoanalysis in the early 20th century when Adolf Meyer, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University advocated psychobiology and commonsense psychiatry. From 1930s to 1960s, Franz Alexander and Helen Flanders Dunbar, two leading figures during this period of a rapid growth of psychosomatic theory, proposed specificity theory and personality constellation, respectively. After the World War II, M. Ralph Kaufman at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital and George Engel at the University of Rochester Medical Center established two of the best consultation-liaison psychiatry service models, the latter of whom proposed the biopsychosocial model in 1977 with significant influence on psychosomatic medicine to the present. Consultation-liaison psychiatry could be regarded as a clinical embodiment of psychosomatic medicine, both of which serve the goal of holistic care by breaking the mind-body dualism. |