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• s  used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis

• People under treatment for psychosomatic illnesses sometimes experience violent flare-ups of their diseases while their psychiatrists are away.
• The psychosomatic reason for Peter's poor health condition was that his parents had never shown him much attention except once when he had typhoid fever.
• The "psychosomatic" cold and eating to "compensate" have become part of folklore.

News & Articles

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• Patient Mistakenly Pronounced Dead, Awakens to Doctors Preparing to Remove Organs
  When White Coat Syndrome Isn’t Just Psychosomatic Have you ever heard of white coat syndrome? It might sound a little silly, but white coat syndrome is high blood pressure that occurs only within the context of a doctor’s office typically because of anxiety related to visiting the doctor. But sometimes things do go wrong at [...]
  July 12, 2013 - Injury Board

Quotes

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• Paul Samuelson in Reason Online
  The book "admits, and rather cheerfully, that the patient is dying," the economist Paul Samuelson wrote in a 1970 Newsweek column, "but of a psychosomatic ailment. No cancer, but neurosis is [the capitalist's] complaint. Filled with...