The Pain & Therapy Bibliography, Record ID 1630
It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness
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author
Suzanne O’Sullivan
publisher
Chatto & Windus
year
2015
page
8
excerpt
Psychosomatic disorders are physical symptoms that mask emotional distress. The very nature of the physical presentation of the symptoms hides the distress at its root, so it is natural that those affected will automatically seek a medical disease to explain their suffering.
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