The article considers the main theoretical issues of psychosomatics. It provides an overview of psychosomatic genesis models. The hypotheses of psychobiological nature of cancer and the mechanism of the placebo effect have been under the study. The general model of psychosomatic work has been worked out. The article provides a brief overview of psychotherapeutic techniques used in the work with somatic diseases, where the main attention has been paid to the procedural and hypnotherapeutic techniques. It discusses the integration of psychosomatics and somatic medicine