somatic awareness in the clinical care of patients with body distress symptoms体意识在患者的临床护理身体不适的症状.pdf

BioPsychoSocial Medicine BioMed Central Review Open Access Somatic awareness in the clinical care of patients with body distress symptoms Donald Bakal*1,2, Patrick Coll2,3 and Jeffrey Schaefer 1,2 Address: 1Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, 2Clinic for Mind/Body Medicine, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Canada and 3Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada Email: Donald Bakal* - dbakal@ucalgary.ca; Patrick Coll - patrick.coll@calgaryhealthregion.ca; Jeffrey Schaefer - jpschaef@ucalgary.ca * Corresponding author Published: 21 February 2008 Received: 26 November 2007 Accepted: 21 February 2008 BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2008, 2:6 doi:10.1186/1751-0759-2-6 This article is available from: /content/2/1/6 © 2008 Bakal et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide primary care physicians and medical specialists with an experiential psychosomatic framework for understanding patients with body distress symptoms. The framework relies on somatic awareness, a normal part of consciousness, to resolve the dualism inherent in conventional multidisciplinary approaches. Somatic awareness represents a guiding healing heuristic which acknowledge