Abstract
This Supplement of La Clinica Terapeutica includes abstracts of lectures, symposia, workshops, clinical case presentations
and posters of the XIII National Congress of the Research Group in Psychosomatics (GRP).
The themtic of Congress is “Multidisciplinarity in psychosomatic perspective” and it represents and ambitious event
realized by debating of clinicians of healthcare system.
Psychosomatics represents an extraordinary opportunity to improve clinical practice in medicine, psychiatry and clinical
psychology by integrating biological, psychological and social factors. The bio-psycho-social model is still the theoretical
and practical core of psychosomatics. It allows clinicians to see disease as the result of mechanisms of interaction at the
cellular, interpersonal and environmental levels that include personality and familiarity. The congress organized by the
GRP for 2023 highlights multidisciplinary approach as a science at the service of psychosomatics capable of providing the
clinical tools that allow a complete and accurate assessment according to the principles of the bio-psycho-social model. It
allows clinicians to see disease as the result of mechanisms of interaction at the cellular, interpersonal and environmental
levels that include personality and familiarity.
Such indices are expected to be, among the others, sensitive in recording changes over time, capable of providing
additional information according to the principle of incremental validity, able to investigate the person in the complexity
linked to suffering and resources. This approach can be an antidote to the reductionist models that clash with clinical reality
and that make the patient’s visit a kind of distracted listening and subsequent random prescription. Multidisciplinarity and
psychosomatic assessment thus become essential in clinical practice and research. The abstracts document how psychosomatics
in clinical practice is more timing than ever and adequate for give a home to researchers and clinicians who want
to venture off the beaten and clinically unsatisfactory paths of standard nosography.