Larry wrote,
| Psychosomatic is strictly a medical term. Sometimes
| medical terms do end up finding there way into other areas, such as a
| "virus". But this has not happened to the term psychosomatic yet.
Yes, Larry, it has; perhaps you personally refuse to use it any other way and
I can't fault you if you do (just as I won't use "celibate" for "abstinent"
nor "nauseous" for "nauseated"), but the term is commonly applied to any sit-
uation where beliefs or expectations affect bodily sensations, not solely the
case of reading a medical book and then showing symptoms of the disease one
just read about. The broader usage would include the placebo effect.
Rick has brought up that psychoacoustics is physiology rather than psycho-
logy: it is the study of how perception of sound is affected equally among
all humans by our ears and brains rather than individually by our minds, so
thinking one MD brand sounds better than another is not psychoacoustic at all
by that definition.
David
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