#psychosomatic-pain

#psychosomatic-pain

My mother had daily bouts of intolerable pain in her colon. Doctors at Duke and Johns Hopkins found no physiological cause. Psychosomatic pain may be due to unresolved conflict or trauma. There was evidence of childhood anal sexual abuse. A relationship with a female professor led her to bolt from college and marry. She was 39 when she was admitted to Graylyn psychiatric hospital.