[Stress and diseases].

The paper presents the contemporary conceptions of stress. Psychosomatic diseases have the composite etiology being made up of biologic and psychosocial factors, for instance stress. The contemporary medicine does not fully appreciate the important role of the psychosocial factors in the etiology of diseases. More and more physicians understand, the traditional, biologic model of the treatment of disorders as myocardial infarction, morbus uicerosus or tumoursis uneffective.