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To me, the term behavioral medicine is preferable to the term psychosomatic medicine, for the latter implies that the “mind” and the body are somehow different or separate. Behavior is the product of brain function; brain functions and the functions of the rest of the body are inextricably intertwined. The brain is an organ which functions under the same laws of nature as the kidney, liver, and lungs. A number of phenomena support this conclusion.

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Sierles, F. (1982). Behavioral Medicine. In: Sierles, F. (eds) Clinical Behavioral Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7973-7_12

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