V. 174 N. 4 (2023)

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.