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Study Course Description

Psychosomatic Medicine I

Main Study Course Information

Course Code

RPH_039

Branch of Science

Psychology

ECTS

6.00

Target Audience

Medicine

LQF

Level 8

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor

Artūrs Utināns

Residency Speciality

Speciality

Psychotherapist

Supervisor of Medical Speciality

Artūrs Utināns

Contacts

About Study Course

Objective

Acquire dependence of knowledge and skills of psychosomatic medicine in compliance with the qualification of the psychotherapist. Provide knowledge and skills in diagnostics, differential diagnosis and treatment of psychosomatic disorders.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.Recognise and describe etiopathogenesis of psychosomatic disorders and diseases, as well as the clinic and potential treatment.

Skills

1.Diagnose and perform differential diagnosis in the case of psychosomatic disorders and elaborate the treatment tactics for treatment of the particular patients and being able to acquire psychosomatic anamnesis.

Competences

1.Example-based knowledge, skills and attitude essential for working at a hospital and for research, raising public awareness via media; understanding of a team-work (work in groups) and its functions, psycho-dynamics, crisis situations and their solution; as well as the ability to manage the work of a multi-disciplinary team and be part of such team, supervise doctors and medical staff.

Assessment

Individual work

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Individual work	-	-
Gather psychosomatic anamnesis, manage the process of treatment and ability to overcome alexitymic reactions in practice with a family doctor; to prepare a clinical case for a psychosomatic patient..

Examination

Title	% from total grade	Grade
1. Examination	-	-
Reflect understanding about psychosomatic disorders and their treatment.
2. Examination	-	-
Analysis of clinical cases, essay.

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME

Part 1

Seminar

Modality	Location
On site	Auditorium

Topics

Ethical and professional interaction aspects of medicine, including psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Theory of affect. Linking biological and dynamic psychiatry. Emotions, their classifications, somatization.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Emotions, their differentiation, functions and dysfunctions.

Seminar

Modality	Location
-	-

Topics

Emotional reactions of parents and children after notification of a prognostically serious diagnosis.

Total ECTS (Creditpoints):

6.00

Number of Residency Seminars:

Length (weeks):

Final Examination:

Residency exam (Theory and practice)

Bibliography

Required Reading

Silvano Arieti, Morton F. Reiser. American Handbook of Psychiatry. Volume Four. Organic Disorders and Psychosomatic Medicine. e-Book 2015 International Psychotherapy Institute.

Kyung Bong Koh. Somatization and Psychosomatic Symptoms. Springer Science, Business Media New York, 2013.

Martine Derzelle. Towards a Psychosomatic Conception of Hypochondria. The Impeded Thought. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2014.

Psychosomatic Medicine: An Introduction to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry by James J. and Robert G. Robinson, Jun 28, 2010.

Psychosomatic Medicine: A Companion to the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine, 2nd Ed by James A., M.D. Bourgeois, Robert E. Hales and Narriman C. Shahrokh, Nov 4, 2010.

Clinical Manual of Psychosomatic Medicine: A Guide to Consultation-liaison Psychiatry by Kemuel L. Philbrick, James R. Rundell, Pamela J. Netzel and James L., M.D. Levenson, Oct 10, 2011.

Medically unexplained symptoms, somatisation, and bodily distress: developing better clinical services / [edited by] Francis Creed, Peter Henningsen, Per Fink. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Additional Reading

Jores Praktische Psychosomatik: Einfūhrung in die psychosomatische und psychotherapeutische Medizin/Hrsg.:Adolf-Ernst Meyer. 1996.

Psychosomatische Medizin/ Rudolf Klussmann. Mit einem Kap. Psychopharmakologie. 1992

Theatres of the Mind/Joyce/ McDougall. 1994.

Uexkull. Psychosomatische Medizin. 5TH ed., 1478 p, 1995

George Fink. Encyclopedia of Stress. Four- Volume Set, 2nd ed., 2007.

Stressors and the Adjustment disorders/ Ed. Joseph D.Noshpitz, R. Dean Coddington. 1990.