心身医学からみた女性医療(<特集>女性をめぐる心身医学)  [in Japanese] Clinical Management of Women as a Mind and Body Medicine(<Special Issue>Clinical Management in Female Psychosomatic Disorders)  [in Japanese]

現代医学において,女性特有の疾患や性差医療の臨床眼を必要とする女性の疾患の治療には心身医学的な対応を主体とするものが少なくない.月経前症候群や更年期障害は,その代表的疾患といえ,常に心身相関を考慮した臨床対応が治療効果を高める.また,心身医学的対応が必要な女性の疾患は,すべてquality of lifeの観点を診療に盛り込むべきものであり,そのような視点での女性医療の成果はその向上に大きく寄与する.女性医療への心身医学的な対応においては,医療者は決して治療をあきらめず,女性が快く感じる陽性のストロークを常に与えながら気長に対応することが,結局心身医学からみた女性医療のコツであろう.

In modern medicine, the psychosomatic approach should contribute to cure many kinds of women's disease and promote women's health. In view of gender specific medicine, psychosomatic clinical skills which take mind-body correlation into consideration help to treat several women's disease such as premenstrual syndrome and climacteric disorder with undefined symptoms. Expected outcomes of treatment in the psychosomatic clinical approach for several women's diseases should include the improvement of quality of life. An important performance of physicians in the psychosomatic clinical approach requires the knack of being patient in treatment by giving continuous positive strokes which could make women comfortable in both mind and body.