The Journal

JPS publishes original articles, reviews, case reports, teaching experiences, and opinions on applications of systems thinking in the fields of somatic and psychic health, as well as interventions to assess, improve, or restore health in psychosocial systems. The fields of knowledge, therapeutic practices of medicine and psychology, and the humanities now converge in reconsidering the somato-psychic unity of the person in a relational and biographical context on the basis of accredited studies. Physicians, psychologists and social workers are increasingly inclined to consider that health and illness are expressed, contextually, in the body, mind and interpersonal experience of the subject. Each of these dimensions is connected to the others, so that new models can be developed to understand the processes that promote health or trigger suffering from a bio-psychosocial perspective. The Journal of Psychosocial Sytems promotes the study and dissemination of systems thinking in medicine, psychology and the social sciences. The journal accepts manuscripts concerning an integrated approach to health and illness, as well as clinical phenomena involving these three dimensions. Each issue of the journal also publishes reflections on pioneering or classic contributions on this topic and focuses, in a specific section, on clinical reports that can stimulate a debate on the unity of the person in his or her life context. A section of the journal is devoted to reporting on those educational experiences that enhance culture and practical skills geared toward the integration of knowledge in the biomedical and human sciences. The journal is aimed both at health professionals, to improve their diagnostic and therapeutic skills and promote empirically validated guidelines, and at all people who want to learn about the contributions of studies and research that expand these skills. The journal declares, in its title, its choice to privilege the systemic-relational model for understanding the complex phenomenology that oscillates between health and illness in the life cycle of individuals and social groups, but it is open to the publication of articles inspired by other theoretical constructs that can contribute to the construction of a unified knowledge of these phenomena, safe from irrational beliefs and dogmatic prejudices. The journal engages authors to write in simple language to meet the expectations of university students. They are, today, our readers and will be, tomorrow, the best authors.

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