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Explanations of Psychophysiological Disorders

In the day to day life occasions are many where a person meets stressful or traumatic life situation to which he may not be able to cope completely. A social adjustment scale devised by Holmes and Rate lists 43 life events associated with different degrees of dis-organisation and stress in a person's life, like death of spouse, children, divorce or [...]

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Notes on the Psychophysiological Disorders | Psychology

Psychophysiological disorder is also popularly known as psychosomatic disorder. The term psychosomatic was coined by Heinroth (1818). It was introduced with the study of the effect of emotion on the various body organs. However, the American Psychiatric Association prefers the term psychophysiological while referring to specific disorders and psychosomatics for the general approach to medicine in which physical, psychological and [...]

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