An Oriental Point of View in Psychosomatic Medicine

Ikemi, Yujiro; Ikemi, Akira

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“…These results tentatively supported our hypothesis about the existence of dissociation between subjective scores and objective response in FSS patients. Ikemi and Ikemi (1986) describe "alexisomia" as the tendency to be unaware of bodily feelings. However, our results suggested that the patients with FSS could be subdivided into two types; those who had "hypersensitive bodily feelings" and those who had "hyposensitive bodily feelings."…”

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“…Our results suggest the potential value of biofeedback because awareness and self-control of bodily feelings are encouraged through feedback. Ikemi and Ikemi (1986) suggest that a process of "body-thinking" in biofeedback can open up the "wisdom of the body. "…”

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“…Alexithymia refers to a difficulty in the awareness and expression of emotional feelings. Ikemi and Ikemi (1986) expand the concept of alexithymia to include difficulty in the awareness and expression of bodily feelings; they establish the concept of "Alexisomia," where there is a difficulty in the awareness and expression of bodily sensations. A concept of alexithymia is important in psychosomatic diseases focusing on psychological aspects, whereas awareness of bodily feelings is important in functional somatic syndromes focusing on physical and behavioral aspects.…”

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Paradoxical Results of Psychophysiological Stress Profile in Functional Somatic Syndrome: Correlation Between Subjective Tension Score and Objective Stress Response

Kanbara

Mitani

Fukunaga

et al. 2004

Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback

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Mind-body interactions are important in functional somatic syndromes (FSS). Therefore, in the assessment of the psychophysiological stress response in patients with FSS, both subjective feelings and psychophysiological activity should be simultaneously measured. In this study, "Objective Tension Score" (OTS) was defined as an objective parameter of tension; it consisted of surface electromyography and skin conductance level as indicators of muscle and mental tension, respectively. "Subjective Tension Score" (STS) was defined as a subjective parameter of tension. Changes in OTS and STS in response to the stress task were investigated in 30 FSS patients and 28 controls. Objective tension was significantly hyporeactive to the stress task and STS was significantly higher in the patient group than in the control group. There was a significant negative correlation between OTS response and STS in the patient group, but no significant correlation in the control group. Our results suggested the existence of dissociation between subjective and objective responses in FSS patients. This may indicate that FSS patients had difficulty with the awareness of bodily feelings, thus supporting the concept of "alexisomia" or "escaped bodily feelings" in FSS patients.

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Paradoxical Results of Psychophysiological Stress Profile in Functional Somatic Syndrome: Correlation Between Subjective Tension Score and Objective Stress Response

Kanbara

Mitani

Fukunaga

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Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback

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“…This communicative function of the somatic language employed by the somatizing patient has been termed somatothymia by Stoudemire (1991). On similar lines persons may have alexisomia, a difficulty in the awareness and expression of bodily feelings (Ikemi & Ikemi, 1986), and hence ignore the somatic manifestations and verbalize the affective, cognitive experiences.…”

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What's ‘in the body’ is actually ‘in the mind’!

Chaturvedi

Desai

2006

International Review of Psychiatry

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“…Other techniques, such as the focusing taught in the Zen meditative tradition has found much success particularly in the cases of psychosomatic illnesses. Being able to tune into the body, recognize the feelings and set them apart from the sense of self has been found to be extremely helpful in addressing many psychosomatic illnesses (Ikemi & Ikemi, 1986). Thus, behavioral psychology and medicine continues to incorporate Buddhist technique and experience in the search for optimal functioning.…”

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Buddhism, Psychology, and Addiction Theory in Psychotherapy

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Psychology and Buddhism From Individual to Global Community

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There has been an explosion of interest in Buddhist philosophy, psychology and practices among psychologists within the past few years. Interest in Eastern religions is not new, however, Buddhist practices have been particularly well received within the more popular psychology or "self help" community. For example, movements such as EST and its' permutations, which are designed to help devotees improve psychological well being by becoming more self aware and here and now focused have deep roots in Buddhist thought. The interest has continued to expand and the commonalities are being studied from an ever-widening perspective.It appears that a major source of the commonality stems from a shared focus and goal. The common vision is the study of the individual with the ultimate purpose of the alleviation of suffering. Both disciplines seek to delve into the depths of human functioning to explicate our realities. The psychological study of human behavior has developed a host of explanations for human suffering or "psychopathology", including theories of unconscious unmet needs or dysfunctional learning and/or environments. The practice of Buddhism also has sought to achieve absolute happiness or enlightenment to the individual and to society by a focusing on self and self-development. Buddhist tradition has contemplated and propounded various psychological theories as part of its' overall philosophical explanation of the ultimate nature of existence. Buddhist philosophies have attempted to address the issue of human suffering and it's relief. Shakyamuni, the person who first expounded Buddhism was moved to abdicate his princely life and engage in his Bodhisattva practices by his despair over the suffering of his Chapter 4 105

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An Oriental Point of View in Psychosomatic Medicine

Cited by 30 publications

References 4 publications

Paradoxical Results of Psychophysiological Stress Profile in Functional Somatic Syndrome: Correlation Between Subjective Tension Score and Objective Stress Response

Paradoxical Results of Psychophysiological Stress Profile in Functional Somatic Syndrome: Correlation Between Subjective Tension Score and Objective Stress Response

What's ‘in the body’ is actually ‘in the mind’!

Buddhism, Psychology, and Addiction Theory in Psychotherapy

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