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| | Psychosomatic illness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Chinese Medicine, such as acupuncture and Qigong, is believed by adherents to correct conditions which are not purely physical. | | | Many identifiable illnesses have previously been labelled as 'hysterical' or 'psychosomatic', for example asthma, allergies, and migraines. | | | Like many eating disorders, they respond well to relationship coaching and various forms of counseling, usually under a physician's supervision. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosomatic_illness
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| | HYPNOSIS AND HEALING with Kevin Hogan |
| | The emotional impact of most psychosomatic illnesses can be lessened in most cases by a competent hypnotherapist and the contact with the group can be lessened as the emotional impact is lessened unless there is a specific benefit that is encouraging healing for the client. | | | While living with psychosomatically induced chronic illness, the client is not likely to im prove if he continues to receive sympathy from his therapist or from his friends, family and peers. | | | First we educate the client to the process of psychosomatic illness. |
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http://www.kevinhogan.com/kevin5.htm
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| | Hypnosis in Psychosomatic Medicine |
| | As with other psychosomatic conditions hypnosis, on a longer-term basis, can be applied to the problems of personality integration and family adjustment. | | | The field of psychosomatic medicine is especially fascinating because it directly opens theoretical doors to issues concerning the relationship of the body to the mind. | | | As with other psychosomatic conditions, comprehensive treatment approaches derive from an awareness of the multi-causal nature of essential hypertension. |
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http://www.triroc.com/sunnen/topics/psychosomatic.htm
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| | psychosomatic medicine - Columbia Encyclopedia article about psychosomatic medicine |
| | , at the end of the 19th cent., laid the scientific groundwork for psychosomatic study, with his theoretical formulations based on new methods of treating hysteria hysteria (hĭstĕr`ēə), in psychology, a disorder commonly known today as conversion disorder, in which a psychological conflict is converted into a bodily disturbance. | | | Psychotherapy, thus, does not include physiological interventions, such as drug therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, although it may be used in combination with such methods. | | | In recent years, psychosomatic medicine has been subsumed under the broader field of behavioral medicine, which includes the study of a wider range of physical ailments. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/psychosomatic+medicine
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| | HYPNOSIS AND HEALING with Kevin Hogan |
| | When the client understands that his illness may be psychophysiological in nature, and acknowledges this fact, healing can begin. | | | Insight of the specific cause of the clients illness becomes the largest piece of the healing puzzle. | | | Each unconscious causal relationship is integrated into the conscious mind for the individuals cognitions. |
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http://www.kevinhogan.com/kevin3.htm
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Psychosomatic disorders |
| | The formal study of psychosomatic illnesses began in Europe in the 1920s, and by 1939, the journal Psychosomatic Medicine had been founded in the United States. | | | Eventually, sophisticated laboratory experiments replaced clinical observation as the primary method of studying psychosomatic illness. | | | Researchers in the field of psychophysiology measured such responses as blood pressure, heart rate, and skin temperature to determine the physiological effects of human behavior. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0002/ai_2699000280
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| | Health and Sickness in Types |
| | According to psychosomatic medicine, illness comes from an inability to accept and solve internal stresses, that are often ignored in favor of other advantages; as we unconsciously decide that our life goals are more important than the consequences of the illness itself. | | | I propose that each personality type will express disease in their own unique ways, resulting from the interaction between a specific defense mechanism and their particular compulsion, both coming from what Antonio Barbato calls the original drama or wound [From Essence to Birth of Ego, EM May/June 2001]. | | | Learning to place their attention on things pleasurable before performing duties, or finding a way to enjoy the beauties of nature, are also appropriate ways for a One to mend their health. |
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http://www.ideodynamic.com/enneagram-monthly/2002/EM_0206_a1.htm
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| | Edward Shorter interview - From Paralysis to Fatigue |
| | But there is no specific medication for psychosomatic problems, aside from a drug like clomipramine, which lessens anxiety. | | | SHORTER: One thing that helps psychosomatic patients is telling their story to the doctor, so giving patients ample time is very important. | | | Although Shorter's book says little about the contemporary experience of psychosomatic illness, it's clear that similar mind-body-culture interplay is very much alive today. |
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http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/21/edward_shorter.html
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| | Why psychosomatisation is complex |
| | Many theories, from the psychoanalytical to the popular psychological have seized on the idea of illness having symbolic communicative value – a repressed conflict or feeling whose meaning has not been consciously assimilated by the patient. | | | This in turn moves the emphasis to exploring shifts in the client’s bodily sense of themselves as a means to both short-term re-organisation and towards long-term work with psychological structure. | | | ’s dysregulation theory is a useful for understanding the complexity of illness, his conclusions in terms of psychotherapeutic intervention fall very much within a conventional deficit-repair model. |
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http://www.thinkbody.co.uk/body-psych/psychosomatisation.htm
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| | Gesamtbuch, |
| | The shift from the notion of psychosomatic specificity to the notion of a non specific predisposing factor of vulnerability to various affect dysregulation disorders for alexithymia, and from a psychological etiology to a medical disease with several psychological related consequences for IBD, has led to a reconsideration of the role of alexithymia in IBD. | | | Currently, the interest of most psychologists and psychosomatic researchers with respect to IBD has shifted to research on coping, quality of life, triggers of relapses by emotional stress, individual and family coping mechanisms. | | | Psychosomatic influences suggest unidirectionallity: from the brain to the rest of the body. |
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http://sip.medizin.uni-ulm.de/abteilung/buecher/WORKSHOP20/22UlmerWerkstatt.htm
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| | Although there is only a small amount of medical evidence, many counselors, psychotherapists and doctors have noticed a link between our emotional state and the illnesses from which we suffer. | | | This is their thinking which I have also come to hold as an important way of looking at illness. | | | The body, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs. |
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http://freespace.virgin.net/david.lloydhoare/html/body_illness.htm
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| | The Alexithymia FAQ |
| | The concept of alexithymia was inspired by the analysis of psychosomatic patients who responded poorly to traditional psychotherapy due to a lack of insight into their emotions and feelings. | | | The psychiatric concept emerged in the context of psychosomatic medicine. | | | He introduced it in two publications; in an article entitled "The Prevalence of 'Alexithymic' Characteristics in Psychosomatic Patients" published in the book Topics of Psychosomatic Research in 1972 and in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics in 1973; and (briefly) in his 1972 book Short-Term Psychotherapy and Emotional Crisis. |
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http://www.alexithymia.supanet.com/faq.html#howtell
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| | Stress & Illness |
| | Psychosomatic originates from the core words psyche, meaning the mind, and soma, meaning the body. | | | *Happy, relaxed people are more resistant to illness than those who tend to be unhappy or tense. | | | So, conditions that have a mind and body component are often called psychosomatic. |
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http://faculty.weber.edu/molpin/healthclasses/1110/bookchapters/stresseffectschapter.htm
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| | Traditional Medical Systems and Cultural Conceptions of Psychopathology: Psychosomatic factors |
| | Chinese medicine may provide a model for how psychosomatic illness develops (Aung, 1996), and hypochondria is perpetuated, while acupuncture may provide a therapeutic intervention. | | | Even psychosomatic medicine fails to overcome this dualism by implying that "it is all in the mind," preserving the mind (psyche) and body (soma) duality (Turner, 1992 in Williams and Bendelow, 1996). | | | Psychology has searched in vain for a physiology which demonstrates a clear connection between somatic events and psychological concepts of the mind that is not an ad hoc theory regarding the latter. |
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http://www.littletree.com.au/chinesemed5.html
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| | Welcome to the Website of Michael Soth |
| | Where the context of an injury or illness is important, where the whole person and his or her situation needs to be considered, then the biomedical model can part company with human compassion and ordinary common sense. | | | Among other things, this particular narrative raises the question of whether or not physical injury or illness that arises from conscious behaviour, such as self-harm, should or should not be included under the psychosomatic umbrella and I will be interested to hear your thoughts. | | | Inherent in the idea of bodymind unity is the idea that an experience that is primarily physical, such as massage, can have a profound psychological effect. |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.soth/soth/articles/turp_paper.html
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| | From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. by Cynthia R. Comacchio |
| | Also, the cultural basis of our current crop of psychosomatic illnesses is two-fold: the loss of medical authority and the breakdown of the family. | | | Thus, what is important to a culture (in this instance, Western Europe and North America, largely the United States) at any specific moment is crucial in defining `legitimate' symptoms, those that the afflicted may respectably choose from, as well as the `illegitimate,' those that inspire derision and dismissal from doctors and society alike. | | | He does point out that his evidence on the patient side is largely drawn from middle- and upper-middle-class files (62). |
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http://www.utpjournals.com/product/chr/744/fatigue4.html
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| | Beckwith on Historiography |
| | There is only the presumption of psychogenesis, based on (a) the history of the illness, such as paralysis after seeing a frog in the road, and (b) the response to what was essentially placebo therapy, such as hydrotherapy or administration of a laxative. | | | This is relevant to many cases of ancient "leprosy," a term which was not limited to the modern ailment, but included all cases of scaly, scabby, or rough skin--symptoms which are likely to accompany a depressed immune system or a depressed person who is not taking care of himself. | | | The point is that things like psychogenic paralysis were once very common, even though it seems so unusual today, which can lead a myopic thinker to dismiss psychogenetic explanations based on incorrect assumptions about what is 'normal'. |
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| | Gastrointestinal Disorders of Psychogenic Origin |
| | Psychotherapy, by manipulation of the environment, persuasion, suggestion, or explanation, is the only means whereby a cure may be effected. | | | Not only is the halting of this escape mechanism of therapeutic value for the neurosis, but also is it of practical military value in saving manpower. | | | A clear-cut decision must be made by the medical officer and must be firmly communicated to the patient. |
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| | Feeling Good: Health and Questions of Psychosomatic Illness: Chapter 8 Continued - To Love Is To Be Happy With |
| | Many will argue that schizophrenia is organic and should be treated with drugs and megavitamin therapy; others will say it's emotional or psychological and must be dealt with on a cognitive and verbal level. | | | Over the last thirty years medicine has become more yielding and willing to accept certain relationships between states of mind and physical conditions. | | | Decision by one element of us (mind) to ingest drugs or alcohol certainly affects our other elements. |
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| | MDAdvice.com - Health Library - Pediatric Symptoms & Illnesses |
| | Such illnesses include asthma, cancer, digestive disturbances, heart disease--all these and others are more common in certain families. | | | Although medical researchers are beginning to understand the basic mechanisms, we still have much to learn about pschosomatic illness. | | | The links between mind, spirit, and body may be poorly defined at times, but they are provable by accepted scientific methods. |
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| | And Then A.P. Hill Came Up - Health Issues |
| | Schenck also suggests that Hill probably did not often seek out medical treatment for his problem, knowing that the doctors could do little and not wanting to take them away from treating his soldiers who he felt needed their services more than he did. | | | What must be kept in mind in trying to figure out just what the nature of Hill's ailment was is that medicine in the 1860s was not terribly advanced and doctors lacked many of the modern technique for making a correct diagnosis of an illness. | | | I can't find the surgeon's report Schenck mentions, but it is quite possible he is correct as to the nature of Hill's malady as well. |
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| | Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique |
| | Indications for, and relative contraindications against, use of this procedure are presented, and a new technique is described. | | | This operation may help cure her adiposity by relieving psychosomatic factors. | | | During this time she had been examined and treated by a number of physicians. |
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| | Article: The Mind-Body Connection: Somatization IS a complex phenomenon - Pat McClendon's Clinical Social Work |
| | This leads us to conclude that information transduction and state-dependent memory and learning are the two fundamental processes that bridge the so-called "mysterious gap" between mind and body; they are the two basic channels of mind-body communication and healing. | | | Selye's life work demonstrated that there were three routes, channels, or systems by which mental stress was transmitted into the body's "psycho-somatic" responses: the autonomic, endocrine, and immune systems. | | | The next 4 pages -" The Celluar-Genetic Connection" section- discuss the mind-gene-molecule communication network, the classic psychosomatic responses to stress, Selye's three-part psychosomatic response, "mind-gene stress operon" and Rossi's theory that a mind-gene healing operons also exists. |
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| | CFIDS/ME Awareness Day 2001 |
| | I remain, nine years into this illness, unable to take care of my most basic needs, mostly bedridden, and almost entirely homebound. | | | As one of my doctors said recently, CFIDS is the only condition he mentions to other doctors in which he confronts not just ignorance, but outright disdain. | | | They then take on a series of maladaptive behaviors which sustain their illness because they become so focused and so phobic." |
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| | Medical Acupuncture and the Management of Psychosomatic Illness |
| | Acupuncture is an intensive and holistic therapy that enhances the quality of life of psychosomatic patients. | | | This process, termed "somatisation", is little understood in Western medicine, although it is implicated in many of the cases seen in general medical practice. | | | Medical Acupuncture and the Management of Psychosomatic Illness |
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| | Individual and Marital Adjustment in Married Couples with Breast Cancer |
| | That caution, does not, however, preclude effort to continue to explore the relation between personality and illness. | | | With that in mind we have been cautious about reaching any conclusion about psychological adjustment and breast cancer. | | | This kind of attribution reduces anxiety, results in a sense of control, and may energize the patient to become active in treating the illness. |
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| | PsychosomaticIllness01 |
| | A study of the effectiveness of two group behavioral medicine interventions for patients with psychosomatic complaints. | | | Efficacy of abbreviated progressive muscle relaxation training: A quantitative review of behavioral medicine research. | | | Keywords: cognitive-behavioral /coping skills /minimal intervention /patient education /relaxation /group /randomized trial /psychosomatic |
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| | STress and Health Notes for Introductory Psychology, Provided by AlleyDog.com |
| | Further studies have found that the scale measures a wide range of experiences that may result in stress as opposed to just measuring "life-changes". | | | For example, there are relaxation techniques such as Meditation, Progressive Neuromuscular Relaxation, exercise, biofeedback, and Selective Awareness, just to name a few. | | | One or more organ can become exhausted and work inefficiently or not at all. |
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| | UMHS - Psychosomatic Illness |
| | You should speak to your physician or make an appointment to be seen if you have questions or concerns about this information or your medical condition. | | | A third individual, equally as grief-stricken, might not get sick at all. | | | In other words, the illness may be emotional or mental in origin but have physical symptoms. |
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| | Psychosomatic illness - definition of Psychosomatic illness in Encyclopedia |
| | Many now-identifiable illnesses have previously been labelled as 'hysterical' or 'psychosomatic', for example asthma, allergies, and migraines. | | | If the illness is genuinely psychosomatic this may or may not be sufficient, but it can also be a very dangerous thing to do as many serious illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer, have initially vague symptoms. | | | On the other hand, treating a psychosomatic illness as a physical illness can have very serious consequences as well. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Psychosomatic_illness
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| | italy is falling: the fowl illness (AKA bird flu) is psychosomatic |
| | The most important fact is that it's all psychosomatic. | | | We could actually do something about it, not only buy vaccines, but revise our parasitic alimentary habits a little. | | | the fowl illness (AKA bird flu) is psychosomatic |
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http://italyfalling.blogspot.com/2005/10/fowl-illness-aka-bird-flu-is.html
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| | Applying Homoeopathy and Bach Flower Therapy to Psychosomatic Illness - Cornelia RICHARDSON-BOEDLER |
| | THE SECOND edition of Applying Homoeopathy and Bach Flower Therapy to Psychosomatic Illness has been enriched from the previous additional section oil "Related Therapies" has been added to each Bach Flower Remedy presented in the materia medica. | | | More specifically, the book guides to the use of Bach Remedies and homoeopathic remedies in the treatment of psychosomatic disease. | | | Applying Homoeopathy and Bach Flower Therapy to Psychosomatic Illness |
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| | Nocebo effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Distinguishing between these effects can be a difficult problem for medical semiotics, or the study of how to interpret the patient's description of their ailments. | | | The nocebo effect is distinguished from older concepts such as sociogenic illness and psychosomatic illness, which are broader terms where a known or unknown cause with cultural or psychological factors is involved. | | | More broadly, the effectiveness of, for instance, Voodoo curses on suggestible victims can be considered an example of the effect. |
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| | Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine -- Home Page |
| | APM MISSION: The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine represents psychiatrists dedicated to the advancement of medical science, education, and healthcare for persons with comorbid psychiatric and general medical conditions and provides national and international leadership in the furtherance of those goals. | | | Please e-mail the name of your 2006 nominee, and reasons why you are suggesting the person for the award, directly to James Levenson, MD, FAPM, Chair of the Fellowship and Awards Committee, at jllevens@vcu.edu. | | | This new page of the APM website will contain miscellaneous news and announcements that may be of interest to Academy members, but which were received after publication of the current Newsletter. |
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| | Print Message |
| | I've read them over repeatedly and still come away with the same sense of negativity that you do. | | | "Any illness that has physical symptoms, but has the mind and emotions as its origin is called a psychosomatic illness. | | | You'll also see that according to description 2 a psychosomatic illness, according to psychosomatic medicine, refers to bodily symptoms caused by mental or emotional disturbance. |
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http://www.suite101.com/print_message.cfm/Fibro_Friends/90760/800825
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| | AboutOurKids.org Articles |
| | Learn more about our clinical programs and staff here. | | | Stress in Children: What It Is, How Parents Can Help | | | The child or adolescent may be suffering from a psychosomatic illness - (Somatoform Disorder) - and may be expressing emotional conflicts through physical complaints. |
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http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutour/disorders/psychosomatic.html
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| | Stress related back pain |
| | John Sarno, M.D., a physician and professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at New York University, has recently popularized the idea of stress-related back pain, which he terms “Tension Myositis Syndrome&; (TMS), although the concept can be traced to as early as the 1820s. | | | A psycho-physiological illness is any illness in which physical symptoms are thought to be the direct result of psychological or emotional factors. | | | The stress-related back pain diagnosis is a "psychosomatic" or "psycho-physiological" one. |
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| | Mental & Emotional Health: Psychosomatic Illness |
| | In keeping with the three-fold ministry of Christ - preaching, teaching and healing - Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation will be the leader in providing quality health care. | | | Psychosomatic illness is a term that is no longer in use. | | | It used to refer to physical illnesses that were caused or made worse by psychological problems. |
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| | Body Awareness & Health - Mental Health Disorders on MedicineNet.com |
| | And most often, the physician, having taken a careful history and done some basic testing, calmly reassures us that there is nothing physically wrong. | | | In psychosomatic illness, such as duodenal ulcer and ulcerative colitis, an identifiable physical illness is always present; the pathology is recognizable to the naked eye, through instruments, or through laboratory testing, or all three. | | | Though certain illness are notoriously difficult to diagnose in their early stages and doctors may lack the diagnostic skill to detect them, generally speaking, when a thorough investigation finds no evidence of disease, a doctor can reasonably attribute such symptoms to somatization. |
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| | eMedicine - Urethral Syndrome : Article by Martha K Terris, MD, FACS |
| | Biofeedback for pelvic relaxation may also be helpful in these patients. | | | As a result of the unrelenting symptoms, many patients have concomitant depression, anxiety, or other secondary psychologic morbidities from the condition. | | | Diet, exercise, and stress reduction are all important to any chronic illness. |
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| | What are the spirit and the mind? What causes psychosomatic illness? |
| | How can blows, drugs, illness, pain and other conditions of unconsciousness affect you later in life? | | | Why is complete silence mandatory to preserve the mental health of a person who is unconscious or in deep pain? | | | Why do you sometimes do things that make no sense to you? |
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| | Psychosomatic Illness, by Venka Heard |
| | It can be very difficult to get rid off our emotions and although this is the best way to heal ourselves. | | | Every illness comes from a negative emotion and I believe everything that is negative is born out of fear. | | | There is always a pattern to each illness or complaint and the ones I will mention here are common enough to use for guidance, but do remember the best guide to what your illness means is your own intuition. |
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http://www.merrynjose.com/artman/publish/article_64.shtml
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