The first psychosomatic teaching courses in Spain started in 1987 in Bilbao, under the supervision of IPSO Paris. The enlargement of this first group led to the creation of a Spanish Society. Thus, on May 12, 1989, the Ibero-American Society of Psychosomatic Studies (S.E.P.I.A.) was formed. In 1999, on the occasion of the works of the 3rd Hispano-French Congress of Psychosomatics, was born the Revista Iberoamericana de Psicosomatica