A group of disorders characterized by physical symptoms that are affected by emotional factors and involve a single organ system, usually under AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM control. (American Psychiatric Glossary, 1988)
    

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The physiology and pathology of the mind / by Henry Maudsley.

Medicine and psychology : the annual address to the Hunterian Society, for 1866 / by Dennis de Berdt Hovell.

Faecal vomiting and anti-peristalsis

"The Life of Aelius Aristides a Greek 'neurotic' - for comparison with the infirmities of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Ellis Barker etc"

Mind Disease and Therapeutics

Mind and body / Stephen Black.

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Medicine and psychology : the annual address to the Hunterian Society, for 1866 / by Dennis de Berdt Hovell.

Faecal vomiting and anti-peristalsis

"The Life of Aelius Aristides a Greek 'neurotic' - for comparison with the infirmities of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Ellis Barker etc"

Mind Disease and Therapeutics

Mind and body / Stephen Black.