psychophysiologic disorder

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noun

any of a group of disorders, as tension headache, characterized by physical symptoms that are partly induced by emotional factors.

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Origin of psychophysiologic disorder

First recorded in 1975–80

What celebrity has started to talk about his or her eating disorder?
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The eating disorder field remains divided over the potential efficacy of such measures.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder] is just a euphemistic way of saying, ‘I have limits,’” Brown writes.
Can Self-Help Books Really Make a New You?|Lizzie Crocker|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Our relationship did not improve as I entered college and developed a raging eating disorder.
You’re Never ‘Cured’ of an Eating Disorder|Carrie Arnold|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If so, it is to be hoped that, wise man as you are, the first attack of this disorder was also your last.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Are you quite sure you have never suffered from this rather common disorder, gentle reader, at least, if you be of the male sex?
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
The key to all our human disorder is organized education, comprehensive and universal.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The conflict of these certainties left hopeless disorder in every corner of his being.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
He found the village in disorder, the fields neglected, many houses deserted, the remainder of the people preparing to move away.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson