Abstract
A 31-year-old female experienced a chronic pain because of stress after marriage; she also had various pathological conditions for 8 years such as eating disorder, low T_3 syndrome which was treated as hypothyroidism, drug dependence, renal dysfunction and electrolytic disorder. Her psychosocial problems were not properly dealt with during her previous hospitalizations such that her pathological state became complicated and she suffered from iatrogenic disease, too. We suspected that her condition was partially iatrogenic in origin. Her condition rapidly improved when we used a psychosomatic approach based on behavioral theory. The results suggest that the absence of psychosomatic approach during her previous hospitalizations may have led to severe complications which prolonged her condition.
