The Subject, Its Biology, and the Chronic Recurrent Cystitis

Abstract

Functional disorders in urology are troubling for both patients and physicians. Moreover, advances in recent research promise to provide biological insights into psycho-neuro-endocrino-immunological pathways that are one important facet of chronic urogenital inflammations. We present a case of a middle-aged woman with long-lasting recurrent cystitis for which especially a psychosomatic approach helped to understand and cure the disorder. Altogether, as practitioners treat subjects, not illnesses, a biopsychosocial understanding of human disease should be taken into account in cases of chronic recurrent cystitis.

Experience of a tertiary-level urology center in the clinical urological events of rare and very rare incidence. III. Psychourological events: 2. Phobia of renal failure due to loin pain

“…Psychosomatics in urology and nephrology are progressively growing medical disciplines that represent the interface between psychiatry and medicine within the biopsychosocial model of mind-body unity. They deal commonly with the functional symptomization due to psychological burdens such as the problems of CKD in nephrology and the somatoform urinary symptoms including syndromes of chronic genitourinary pain [13,21,22]. Extreme fears and phobias of being diseased with renal failure represent the clinical formulation of the altered perception of CKD risk and could be conceptualized as one of the psychosomatic presentation.…”

Caloric Vestibular Stimulation as a Treatment for Conversion Disorder: A Case Report and Medical Hypothesis

“… Score Profile of the symptom checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) . All nine subscales (SOM, somatization; O–C, obsessive–compulsive; I-S, interpersonal sensitivity; DEP, depression; ANS, anxiety; HOS, hostility; PHOB, phobic anxiety; PAR, paranoid ideation; PSY, psychoticism), and the GSI (global severity index) are presented ( 67 ). (T50, T60, T70: thresholds for the standard male German population.…”