The psyche<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have encountered many times and am encountering again at present that the psyche \u2013 as in \u2018psychogenic\u2019 \u2013 is a bridge too far for many medical colleagues. Intuitively, general practitioners may be more open to it, but unfortunately, my experience tells me mostly otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The psyche is not what physicians worldwide seriously study in their basic curriculum. Psychosomatics is far from the students\u2019 bed, at least as a medical course. On the other side, there are journals in psychosomatics. There is a lot of research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, by far, not enough, and of what is known in research, little gets trickled down to practice in most cases. On top of that, there\u2019s a lot of Cartesian thinking even in the research domain of psychosomatics. [see: \u201c<Mind = Body> Healthcare<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eventually, the mind may be more important than the body in healthcare.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This sentence goes with the presupposition, of course, that we are talking about viewpoints in non-dualistic thinking, which is the reasonable one. [see: “‘Mind = Body’ Breakthrough<\/a>“]<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, if one takes the mind out of the picture, one gets somatic (bio-)medicine. Does that seem a rational way to proceed? Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar (Mark 12:17, NT). Let somatic physicians be somatic physicians interested in somatic healthcare \u2014 new line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mind and body are inseparable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If one wants to act like they are entirely different, one doesn\u2019t end up with healthcare minus some part, but with far less. That shows in everything: from unnecessary medical investigations to sending patients home with a \u2018stress verdict\u2019 or worse, with a prescription or appointment for therapy that is quite senseless, but \u201cPeople ask something,\u201d and \u201cOne needs to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the mind in the picture, mind and<\/em> body will be treated differently in many cases \u2015 say: most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, patients who think they are treated well as a person aren\u2019t motivated to look further. Also, research should be much more incentivized in that direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, are physicians interested in healthcare or only in part of healthcare?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Many (most) somatic colleagues show a staggering amount of not-being-interested in healthcare, but only in medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n