Jonathan Edwards
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The use of "psychosomatique" in french is a bit ambiguous. For a few people, it effectively deals with the interaction between mind and body. My previous GP told me that to a certain extend, all diseases are psychosomatic. I don't know if he really meant it or if he wanted me to swallow the pill. But for most of the doctors, it clearly means "there's nothing wrong with you, you've got a psychiatric disorder".
French spoken in Belgium is not very different from that spoken in France, so I guess it means the same.
Thanks Cheshire,
That suggestion of mine was obviously wrong. But it looks from Valentijn's stuff that this was a case of 'let's not upset the journal reviewers, we will intone the mantra and get this published so that people can see the data'. The alternative is usually academic suicide and not much use to patients.