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psychosomatic pain

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psychosomatic pain
Etymology: Gk, psyche, mind, soma, body; L, poena, penalty
pain that is caused in part by psychologic factors.


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It is unethical to exclude all organic pathologies and to conjure up a diagnosis of psychogenic pain, psychosomatic pain, somatic pain, etc.
Rubin on psychosomatic pain (1) quoted a study (2) in which it was found that "college students with chronic pain yielded a history of abuse (physical and/or sexual) in 43.
Sarno's concept of tension myositis syndrome, which begins with narcissistic rage and runs through the pathophysiologic steps noted above, can account for a wide variety of psychosomatic pain problems.
 
 
 
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