work significantly informed later clinical guidelines and highlighted the importance of considering psychiatric comorbidities when managing hepatitis C patients.

Connotations of the term "psychosomatic illness"

The term psychosomatic disease was most likely first used by Paul D. MacLean in his 1949 seminal paper 'Psychosomatic disease and the "visceral brain"; recent developments bearing on the Papez theory of emotions.' In the field of psychosomatic medicine, the phrase "psychosomatic illness" is used more narrowly than it is

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