====== Psychosomatic prevalence ======

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A 1999 Russian study put the number of patients in hospital with  [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosomatic_medicine|Psychosomatic disorders]] (i.e. illness without physical cause ) at over 50%

See: [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10319390|Psychosomatic disorders (clinical picture, epidemiology, therapy and models of health services]] in: //Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova,// 99(4):4-16

Other colloquial reports in the UK put the figure lower, at around 20% The true figure is currently unknown.

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Also see [[https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/448856|Current Psychosomatic Practice]]