1The patient's chronic back pain was ultimately diagnosed as psychosomatic, rooted in years of unaddressed workplace anxiety.
2Is it reductive to label a condition as psychosomatic when the underlying neurobiological mechanisms remain poorly understood?
3The physician did not dismiss her symptoms as imaginary but carefully explained how psychosomatic processes can produce genuine physical distress.
4Consider the psychosomatic dimension of the patient's presentation before ordering yet another battery of invasive tests.
5There is a long and often stigmatised history of psychosomatic illness in medical literature, from nineteenth-century hysteria to contemporary functional neurological disorders.