Mgmcri psychiatry bulletin mind & medicine 2014 2 1

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MIND & MEDICINE

Vo l u m e 2 Issue 1

Q u a r te r l y b u l l e t i n o f t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f P s yc h i a t r y

January-March

MAHATMA GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE & RESEARCH INSTITUTE ● PONDICHERRY ● INDIA

2014

In this issue:

CONSULTATION-LIAISON PSYCHIATRY ATTITUDES OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TOWARDS MENTAL ILLNESS CASE REPORT (ORGANIC MOOD DISORDER)

The roots of psychosomatic medicine… A historical persepective Walter Bradford Cannon (1871 - 1945) Pioneer Physiologist of Human Emotions “Taught to deal with concrete and demonstrable bodily changes, we are likely to minimize or neglect the influence of an emotional upset, or to call the patient who complains of it "neurotic", perphaps tell him to "go home and forget it," and then be indifferent to the consequences. But emotional upsets have concrete and demonstrable effects in the organism.” - Walter Cannon, The Role of Emotion in Disease, 1936. Walter Cannon was one of America’s leading physiologists and most respected scientific statesmen of the 20th century. He collected evidence to show that when an animal is strongly aroused, the sympathetic division of its autonomic nervous system combines with the hormone adrenaline to mobilize the animal for an emergency response of “flight or fight.” The “sympathico-adrenal system” orchestrates changes in blood supply, sugar availability, and the blood’s clotting capacity in a marshalling of resources keyed to the “violent display of energy.” He summarized his initial findings in his path-breaking 1915 book, Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage. Beginning in 1928, Cannon turned increasing attention to the clinical implications of his physiological discoveries, thus becoming a major authority in the emerging research field of psychosomatic medicine.

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EDITORS Dr. Abu Backer S Dr. Sivaprakash B A S S O C I AT E E D I T O R S Dr. Eswaran S Dr. Sukanto Sarkar


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