Psychosomatics, the lived body, and anthropological medicine

concerning a case of atopic dermatitis

Georg Northoff

Michael A. Schwartz

Michael A. Schwartz

Osborne P. Wiggins

pp. 139-154

in: Drew Leder (ed), The body in medical thought and practice, Berlin, Springer, 1992

Abstract

The modern medical practitioner attempts to account for the various aspects of illness by considering them all together and, in doing so, adopts a biopsychosocial approach. As a general medical orientation, psychosomatic medicine finds its main purpose in pursuing such an approach.