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'''Psychosomatic disorder''', now more commonly referred to as '''psychophysiologic illness''', is an [[illness]] whose symptoms are caused by [[mental process]]es of the sufferer rather than immediate [[physiological]] causes. If a medical examination can find no physical or organic cause, or if an illness appears to result from emotional conditions such as [[anger]], [[anxiety]], [[depression]] or [[guilt]], then it might be classified as psychosomatic. '''Psychosomatic disorder''', now more commonly referred to as '''psychophysiologic illness''', is an [[illness]] whose symptoms are caused by [[mental process]]es of the sufferer rather than immediate [[physiological]] causes. If a medical examination can find no physical or organic cause, or if an illness appears to result from emotional conditions such as [[anger]], [[anxiety]], [[depression]] or [[guilt]], then it might be classified as psychosomatic.
 +==See also==
 +* [[Behavioral Medicine]]
 +* [[Conversion disorder]]
 +* ''[[Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine]]'' (documentary film)
 +* [[Placebo Effect]]
 +* [[Psychoneuroimmunology]]
 +* [[Psychosomatic Medicine (the journal)]]
 +* [[Somatoform disorder]]
 +* [[Somatopsychic]]
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Psychosomatic disorder, now more commonly referred to as psychophysiologic illness, is an illness whose symptoms are caused by mental processes of the sufferer rather than immediate physiological causes. If a medical examination can find no physical or organic cause, or if an illness appears to result from emotional conditions such as anger, anxiety, depression or guilt, then it might be classified as psychosomatic.

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