「歯科心身症」と心身医学/精神医学(<特集>歯科・口腔外科をめぐる心身医学)  [in Japanese] Psychosomatic Dentistry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychiatry(<Special Issue>Psychosomatic Medicine in Dentistry and Oral Surgery)  [in Japanese]

「歯科・口腔外科をめぐる心身医学」という特集の最初に,歯科心身症や歯科心身医学とそれに関連する概念の整理を試みた.日本歯科心身医学会が発足して四半世紀が過ぎようとしているが,歯科心身医学はまだ周辺医学との連携や歯科口腔外科医の教育などにおいて多くの課題を抱えたままである.今後の発展に期待したい.

In this paper, the authors describe the definition of psychosomatic disorders, the dental disorders included in psychosomatic disorders, the difference between psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, and the disorders that doctors and dentists specialized in psychosomatic dentistry should treat. Psychosomatic dentistry in Japan seems to be still immature though a quarter of century have passed since the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry was established. The authors look forward to its further development with much expectation.