Therapeutic Complementarities between Acupuncture and Psychotherapy
Journal Title: Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy - Year 2016, Vol 19, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: The context of a supraspecialized medical environment generates the need for interdisciplinary collaboration, both between medical disciplines and between physicians and other health care providers. Seen as a medical specialty by the conventional medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a medical system per se. Based on the extreme-oriental phylosophycal concepts, it has been practiced for about 4700 years. Modern research brings confirmation and explanations for the theoretical and practical aspects stated in the antique medical texts. In Europe the most frequent used tehnique of TCM is acupuncture. The practice of TCM and acupuncture in the present needs adjusting these interventions to the needs of today’s patients. The TCM treaties written until recently have treated psychoemtional phenomena only form the energetical and organic perspective. Current lifestyle, due to the increasing influence of stress in pathology brings into discussion, for an etiological approach in treatment, the collaboration with psychotherapy. Objectives: This discussion aims to bring arguments for the benefits of the collaboration between physicians practicing acupuncture and psychotherapists. Methods: Literature investigation and clinical cases analysis. Results: Acupuncture is a useful treatment method in both psychoemotional, psychosomatic and organic syndromes. Still, our clinical experience currently indicates that acupuncture can not fully address coping patterns that generate emotional stress and somatization. This is the place where psychotherapy can intervene. Conclusions: For patients with long term and recurring symptoms, either psychoemotional, psychosomatic or organic, integrating acupuncture treatment with psychotherapy could bring a steady health benefit. Further studies are needed to confirm these clinical observations.
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Ştefan Costescu
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