Psychosomatics is an extremely complex field, dealing primarily with issues that oscillate around the relationship between the mental and somatic state of a person - especially during diseases. Research conducted in this context is extensive and increasingly accurate, and Dr. Agnieszka Woźniewicz-Grzymała of the Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń boasts her active contribution to expanding knowledge on this subject. Over the past few years, she has taken part in numerous symposia and congresses at the international level (including in Glasgow, Beijing and Paris), as a result stablishing numerous contacts with many scientists, which resulted in a research work with Prof. Fiammetta Cosci from the University of Florence.

The subject of the research undertaken during this collaboration was the concept of demoralization, an analysis of the use of the word in the literature and a statement of its clinical usefulness. In psychology, psychiatry and psychosomatics, demoralization is defined as a mental state characterized primarily by feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, sadness and a general inability to cope with these negative emotions. Although demoralization resembles depression, the two terms should be treated under separate criteria. Depression is a disorder, while demoralization is a condition; at the same time, the presence of one does not preclude the coexistence of the other. An important aspect of the research work was to analyze the problem of diagnosing demoralization in the context of the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR).

In addition, dr Wozniewicz took part in extensive workshops and courses on Well-Being therapy. This resulted in cooperation with prof. Giovanni A. Fava's team and the translation of his book. Furthermore, the collaboration with international researchers resulted in a comprehensive research article using the Clinimetric Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (CLIPROM) criteria for cross-cultural assessment of five different versions of the WHO-5 and Euthymia Scale in countries such as Poland, Italy, Denmark, China and Japan.
Her most recent work, together with professor Cosci, is on one of the psychosomatic syndromes, demoralisation - the most comprehensive review of research on this syndrome to date.

You can read more about the above issues in articles co-authored by dr. Woźniewicz:
https://authors.elsevier.com/.../S0272-7358(22)00112-X
https://www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S0165032722006322