Clinical implications of Psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology in Psychotherapy

Abstract

Psychoneuroimmune endocrinology (PNIE) has revealed the intermodulations of the psychological, nervous, endocrine and immune systems caused by stimuli from the internal and external environment and this prompts changes in the approach of clinical practice. It is necessary in the therapeutic strategy to consider interacting factors from the different dimensions of the person which are present in health and disease processes, as well as hypersensitized circuits by psychophysical experiences lived throughout life.

The diagnostic evaluation through Metaplasticity (Abraham, 1996), which arises from this incident multifactoriality in the etiology of the alterations, as well as from the convergence of the history of the individual, his present circumstances and expectations, are facts that will condition the processing of the following stimuli, including responses to both drugs and psychotherapy. This article is of interest to PNIE psychotherapists, as well as to professionals from other areas to go deep into the bases of the therapeutic strategy of Integrative Psychotherapy PNIE (PI, PNIE), the framework of the actions of the Latin American Federation PNIE (FLAPNIE) and thus favor transdisciplinary work.