Die neue Psychosomatik der Körperbeschwerden

The Puzzle of Functional Disorders. A highly innovative concept for understanding and treating psychosomatic disorders. Peter Henningsen is one of the most prominent specialists in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in Germany. Millions of people suffer from sometimes severe chronic complaints that cannot be clearly attributed to an organic disease: With states of exhaustion, various types of pain, dizziness attacks, and much more, they are often passed through our healthcare system for years, usually without results. Long Covid also falls into this spectrum of misunderstood illnesses. In this book, Peter Henningsen lays the foundation for a more comprehensive and deeper understanding of functional disorders. New insights into how our brain works suggest an integrated explanatory approach: Functional bodily complaints can be understood as a disturbed interplay of the inseparably connected biological, psychological, and social factors. This presents an opportunity for those affected to take an active role themselves.