Ignacio Jáuregui-Lobera

By Ignacio Jáuregui Lobera

Part of the book: New Insights into the Prevention and Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa

By Beatriz Jáuregui Garrido and Ignacio Jáuregui Lobera

Part of the book: Relevant topics in Eating Disorders

By Ignacio Jáuregui Lobera

Part of the book: State of the Art of Therapeutic Endocrinology

By José Vicente Martínez Quiñones, Mar Martínez Gamarra and Ignacio Jáuregui Lobera

Telling stories (storytelling) is, above and beyond, a form of communication. It is a natural, universal, and well-known way of interaction among human beings. Storytelling, orally as well as in writing, is the sharing of personal narratives, a sort of story-sharing. With regard to chronic disease self-management, storytelling has been reported to be an exciting approach to patients and families. In this regard, families are considered very important in the management and treatment of eating disorders. Living with an eating disorder is an experience which deserves to be expressed in order to improve emotional support always necessary for patients’ families. Bearing in mind that eating disorders can be chronic illnesses that lead to challenging and troublesome experiences for patients and their families, this chapter aims to think over the everyday interactions that typify family life in the context of eating disorders and specifically in the case of bulimia nervosa. We propose this text as a reflection based on different experiences when working with bulimic patients.

Part of the book: Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa

By Ignacio Jáuregui-Lobera and Marian Montes-Martínez

The first time that terms such as food addiction and addictive eating were mentioned was in 1956, in an article by T.G. Randolph. Recently, from a psychosomatic point of view, some authors have linked obesity and food addiction. Along with the concept of food addiction (derived from the similarities between the consumption of certain foods and “substance addictions”), a couple of questions seem to arise: What if it’s not just the particular food (the substance) that we are addicted to? Could it be that we are addicted to something else that makes us eat it? Thus, the concept of eating addiction has its own set of particulars. It brings the attention back to the individual and not the external substance (the food or ingredient). The focus on confronting the obesity problem should be moved away from the food itself (the addictive substance) to the person’s act of eating (the addictive behavior). Undoubtedly, there are many links between emotions and overweight/obesity. This chapter aims to review the current state of this field of study which is the emotional basis of obesity (at least a particular case of obesity and weight-related disorders).

Part of the book: Psychosomatic Medicine

By José Vicente Martínez-Quiñones, Mar Martínez Gamarra and Ignacio Jáuregui-Lobera

Management of patients who describe chronic pain all over the body, associated with a range of symptoms as sleep disturbance, overwhelming fatigue, alteration in mood, or psychological distress that worsens the quality of life, is often complex and challenging. This syndrome has been named by terms such as “neurasthenia,” “fibrositis,” and “fibromyalgia”. At the present time, fibromyalgia is considered the most common central sensitivity syndrome, affecting over 5% of the population, being often observed in people with rheumatic conditions. While typically presenting in middle-aged women, fibromyalgia can affect both sexes at any age. The causes of fibromyalgia remain unknown. Significant research findings have focused on dysfunction of central pain processing, with defects in the ascending and descending pain pathways leading to increased pain perception. There are two methods used in the diagnosis of fibromyalgia: criteria-based diagnosis and clinical diagnosis. Although fibromyalgia defies definitively efficacious management, much evidence underlies the importance of treating the psychological factors that affect pain management process. The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a psychosomatic approach to fibromyalgia from three points of view of processing: the viewpoint of the medical profession, the position of the psychologist, and finally the way of thinking of people.

Part of the book: Psychosomatic Medicine

By Manuel Mejías-Estévez, Rocio Dominguez Álvarez and Ignacio Jauregi Lobera

Psychosomatic medicine (MP) and palliative care are disciplines with history and both are based in the scientific world. Although the psychosomatic diagnosis is exclusionary, it can help palliative care to be more effective. The influence of the psychosomatic in the palliative exists. According to all the bibliography available in the electronic databases, psychosomatic medicine is a biopsychosocial model related to both physical and psychosocial factors, which helps improve the care of patients with advanced cancer in palliative care (improved survival, quality of life, reduces the burden on caregivers). It helps analyze and address psychiatric disorders, as well as in the control of complex symptoms such as life-threatening anxiety, depression or delirium. Therefore, both medical disciplines are related from the beginning and help to the quality of life of terminally ill patients.

Part of the book: Psychosomatic Medicine