Topics on Obesity as a Psychosomatic Disease—Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Weight Stigma

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  • Yamazaki Tadahiro
    Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital
  • Kikuchi Hiroe
    Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Center Hospital of the National Center for Global Health and Medicine

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  • 肥満の心身医学領域のトピック
  • 肥満の心身医学領域のトピック : 認知行動療法・スティグマ
  • ヒマン ノ シンシン イガク リョウイキ ノ トピック : ニンチ コウドウ リョウホウ ・ スティグマ
  • —認知行動療法・スティグマ—

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Abstract

<p>Obesity is one of the representative psychosomatic diseases with complex psychosocial factors affecting its onset and clinical course. Various treatments including behavioral therapy have been attempted, however the issues of treatment attrition and weight loss maintenance remain on the table. With regards to these issues, cognitive features that are characteristic to patients with obesity have increasingly been revealed, bringing light to the “Personalized cognitive-behavioral therapy for obesity : CBT-OB”. Recently, weight stigma is becoming a public concern, not only remaining as a medical problem. There is now a clearer association between the weight stigma and the patients’ medical outcomes. From these backgrounds, it is estimated that the role of psychosomatic medicine will progressively expand with regards to the treatment of obesity.</p>

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