psychosomatic disorder

psychosomatic disorder
a disorder in which the physical symptoms are caused or exacerbated by psychological factors, such as migraine headache, lower back pain, or irritable bowel syndrome. The synonym psychophysiologic disorders, used in previous official nomenclatures and defined as “physical disorders of presumably psychogenic origin,” has been replaced in DSM-IV by the more neutral phrase psychological factors affecting physical condition, which may be applied to any physical condition judged to be adversely affected by one or more psychological or behavioral factors, and is subtyped on the basis of the specific factors involved.

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