Disease that shows a physical dysfunction or lesion in which psychological and other non-physical factors play a causative role, e.g. asthma, vasomotor rhinitis, peptic ulcer, colonic disorders, arterial hypertension, chronic urticaria, coronary’ disease and hyperthyroidism. These should be distinguished from mental disorders and from the psychic effects of diseases which are not psychically caused.
A disorder that results from stress or other emotional causes.