Interpreting physical sensations to guide health-related behavior, 2021, Fazekas et al

Summary

From a biopsychosocial perspective, maintaining health requires sufficient autoregulatory and self-regulatory capacity to both regulate somatic physiology and manage human-environment interactions. Increasing evidence from neuroscientific and psychological research suggests a functional link between so called interoceptive awareness and self-regulatory behavior. Self-regulation can, again, influence autoregulatory patterns as it is known from biofeedback training or meditation practices.

In this review, we propose the psychosomatic competence model that provides a novel framework for the interrelation between interoceptive and self-regulatiory skills and health behavior. The term psychosomatic competence refers to a set of mind- and body-related abilities which foster an adequate interpretation of interoceptive signals to drive health-related behavior and physical well-being. Current related empirical findings and future directions of research on interoception and self-regulation are discussed.

Open access, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00508-021-01988-8

 

Has medicine officially given up treating patients? It would certainly seem so. Doctors are going back to the 1880s in pretending to treat patients, particularly women and children.

 

Honestly, yeah. The only real progress happening now is from cutting edge research and done by PhDs in the form of useful technologies. The rest of medicine is paralyzed by weird traditions and myths, seems content with performative rituals. If anything it seems to be getting worse, the golden age of psychosomatics is actually still expanding. And right at the time it meets the inevitable fact of its irrelevance.

It's just too easy to do stuff like this paper, too tempting and it's fully zero risk, no one even expects anything useful out of this. And it's cheap in the same way not fixing a leaky roof is cheap. But it really is cheap when you only look at it superficially.

 

Truly dreadful. Asserts actual biological effects from arcane practices but quoted sources either involve non significant studies or simply behaviour change. One of the quoted authors has had the Jim Coyne treatment: https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/201...ogram-mbsr-fails-to-deliver-positive-results/ and https://www.coyneoftherealm.com/201...rking-of-mbsr-means-for-mindfulness-training/

 

Not another stigmatising term! Must get a joke button! Hi! I have psychosomatic incompetence! (What really worries me is that they will want to see this as a state of non-competence then twist it to be a criteria for the mental health act….yes.. probably catastrophising again! )

 

That should be no surprise. The same people are in charge. They still have the same beliefs.