Modes of Psychosomatic disorder There are three general categories of psychosomatic illness. In the first one, a person has a mental and physical illness, whose symptoms and management complicate ...

For decades, these conditions have also been described as "psychogenic illnesses" or "psychosomatic disorders," owing to the idea that psychological factors (psycho-) are causative (-genic ...

Pauline, 25, had been admitted to the hospital with pain and swelling in her leg that no amount of morphine could quiet—her third admission for the same complaint. She had been in and out of ...

Hence it connects psychiatry and other medical specialties so that physicians and psychiatrists can discuss how to best manage patients with psychosomatic illness. The ancient Greeks and the ...

A study my colleagues and I conducted of over 3,000 people with autoimmune disease uncovered many extra long-lasting disadvantages when the misdiagnosis involved a mental health or psychosomatic ...

Inflammatory and sensory skin disorders are significantly affected by stress and emotion. Griesemer (1978), who was both a dermatologist and a psychiatrist, developed an index of the effect of ...

In this extract from The Age of Diagnosis, Suzanne O’Sullivan argues many cases have a psychosomatic basis. You can read more about O’Sullivan’s work in Part I of The age of diagnosis.