V poslednee vremya v prichinakh vozniknoveniya, osobenno psikhosomaticheskikh zabolevaniy, usililas' rol' sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoy napryazhennosti. I nevozmozhno ponyat' mekhanizmy razvitiya ryada somaticheskikh proyavleniy bez ponimaniya roli psikhologicheskikh, stressornykh i lichnostnykh psikhicheskikh osobennostey v patogeneze ikh razvitiya. Predlagaemoe uchebnoe posobie vklyuchaet kak voprosy teoreticheskikh i metodologicheskikh osnov psikhosomaticheskoy meditsiny, tak i voprosy, posvyashchennye izucheniyu konkretnykh psikhosomaticheskikh zabolevaniy organov dykhaniya, serdechno-sosudistykh, zheludochno-kishechnykh i dr.