Editing Psychosomatic medicine (section)

==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.’<ref name="pmid15410445">{{cite journal | vauthors = Maclean PD | title = Psychosomatic disease and the visceral brain; recent developments bearing on the Papez theory of emotion | journal = Psychosomatic Medicine | volume = 11 | issue = 6 | pages = 338–53 | date = 1949 | pmid = 15410445 | doi = 10.1097/00006842-194911000-00003 | s2cid = 12779897 }}</ref> In the field of psychosomatic medicine, the phrase "psychosomatic illness" is used more narrowly than it is within the general population. For example, in lay language, the term often encompasses illnesses with no physical basis at all, and even illnesses that are faked ([[malingering]]). In contrast, in contemporary psychosomatic medicine, the term is normally restricted to those illnesses that do have a clear physical basis, but where it is believed that psychological and mental factors also play a role. Some researchers within the field believe that this overly broad interpretation of the term may have caused the discipline to fall into disrepute clinically.<ref name= "greco">{{cite book | vauthors = Greco M | title = Illness as a Work of Thought: Foucauldian Perspective on Psychosomatics| publisher = Routledge| year = 1998| pages = 1–3, 112–116| isbn = 978-0-415-17849-5}}</ref> For this reason, among others, the field of behavioral medicine has taken over much of the remit of psychosomatic medicine in practice and there exist large areas of overlap in the scientific research.