The Congress will offer a unique opportunity to address new approaches to health care. The inadequacies of the traditional biomedical model in today’s medical practice are becoming more manifest, which calls for inclusion of psychosocial and family factors in medical assessment and treatment. Psychosomatic medicine offers unprecedented opportunities for improving quality, direct and indirect costs, and effectiveness of the clinical approach in medicine and psychiatry by integrating biological, psychological and sociocultural variables in disease onset, maintenance and treatment.

The Congress will consist of lectures that update significant topics in psychosomatic medicine, symposia, interactive clinical cases conferences, workshops, and poster sessions. It is a unique opportunity to venture off the beaten path of exclusive reliance on biomedicine as the only approach to health care and to broaden clinical perspectives, in the setting of a fascinating Italian city.