Kurt Cobain

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

American Singer

Joyce Carol Oates

The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.

American Novelist

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.

Dutch Scientist

Scott Stossel

During first grade, I spent nearly every afternoon for months in the school nurse's office, sick with psychosomatic headaches, begging to go home; by third grade, stomachaches had replaced the headaches, but my daily trudge to the infirmary remained the same.

American Journalist

Alana Stewart

I went to one doctor who told me I wasn't exercising enough. I was so exhausted, I couldn't raise my arm. When this doctor called it psychosomatic, I was enraged. To think the constant sore throat and swollen glands were all in my head was infuriating.

American Actress

Jim Palmer

Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.

American Athlete

Focuses on illnesses triggered or worsened by emotions rather than only physical causes.

Internal Causes

The physical symptoms are real and can be observed, although their cause is mental.

Not Imaginary

Emphasizes that mental stress can have a direct impact on physical health.

Stress Connection

Highlights the integral connection between mental and physical aspects of well-being.

Mind-Body Link

Used to describe treatments or therapies that address both mind and body as a whole.

Holistic Approach

Activities labeled as psychosomatic often aim to increase self-awareness of body and mind.

Psychosomatic