2018 Volume 58 Issue 1 Pages 57-64
Referring to the results of The Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Research on Respiratory Diseases (abbreviated to the Society), I mentioned the activities expected in the field of respiratory psychosomatic medicine in the next generation. In the meeting of the Society, the research for bronchial asthma was mainly presented and active discussion was held. Unfortunately, the Society was closed in 1996 due to unavoidable reasons. After the Society was closed, the number of presentations relating to respiratory psychosomatic research sharply decreased at the meetings of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine. The possible reasons for it were mentioned.
As to the activities required for developing respiratory psychosomatic medicine, I consider it important to increase the seminars and lecture meetings for respiratory psychosomatic medicine, to use Comprehensive Asthma Inventory and “Questionnaire relating the onset and clinical course of bronchial asthma” and to present respiratory psychosomatic medicine at the meeting of respiratory medicine.
I also discussed the difficulty in practicing a psychosomatic approach at the department of psychosomatic internal medicine, and the underlying problems of psychosomatic medicine in Japan.
