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Welcome to the American Psychosomatic Society
Description
The essential mission of the American Psychosomatic Society is to promote and advance the scientific understanding of the interrelationships among biological, psychological, social and behavioral factors in human health and disease, and the integration of the fields of science that separately examine each, and to foster the application of this understanding in education and improved health care.
The Annual Meeting in March is an open scientific and clinical forum where investigators from allied disciplines communicate, pool their knowledge, consider problems of conceptual relationships, and develop ideas which will stimulate further research. Typically, the three-day meeting is devoted to the presentation of scientific papers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, invited lectures and addresses. Roundtable luncheon discussions, as well as business meetings for the Society's membership and Council, and the Journal's editorial board are included. The reception and annual banquet close the meeting on Saturday.
As the official organ of the Society, the purpose of the Journal, Psychosomatic Medicine, is to present experimental and clinical studies dealing with various aspects of the relationships among social, psychological, and behavioral factors and bodily processes in both human and lower animals. It is an international, interdisciplinary journal devoted to experimental and clinical investigation in behavioral biology, including the relationship of experience to bodily functioning, or psychiatry and psychology to clinical medicine, or early experience to later behavior and physiologic function, of behavior to brain function, and of data derived from animal studies to clinical hypotheses, all of which provide a rational basis for understanding and treating complex disease states. The Journal is published six times a year; supplementary issues may contain reports of conferences at which original research was presented in areas relevant to the Society or may consist of monographs.
