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In principle, physical illness can lead to mental consequences in two ways — either via cerebral lesions or via the experience of being physically ill and the patient’s psychological reaction to that. We may therefore speak of both somatogenic and psychogenic mental consequences of physical illness.
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Ottosson, JO. (1989). Psychiatric Consequences of Physical Illness — Clinical Aspects. In: Öhman, R., Freeman, H.L., Holmkvist, A.F., Nielzén, S. (eds) Interaction Between Mental and Physical Illness. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73993-4_1
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