Dr. Ingela Thuné-Boyle
Health Psychologist
Online Therapy

The way we describe illness is not neutral. It shapes how conditions are understood, how patients are treated, and how individuals make sense of their own symptoms. Few terms illustrate this more clearly than mind–body syndrome and psychosomatic illness. While they are sometimes used interchangeably, they reflect very different underlying assumptions about health, causation, and care. At first glance, both terms attempt to capture the relationship between psychological and ph

In clinical practice, it is not uncommon to encounter clients living with persistent physical symptoms such as pain, fatigue, gastrointestinal distress, or neurological sensations that are difficult to fully explain. These presentations are sometimes described within the framework of Mind–Body Syndrome (MBS), a term used to capture the dynamic interaction between psychological stress, emotional processes, and nervous system functioning in the generation or amplification of ph

The mind-body connection refers to the link between our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, and our physical health. This relationship is bi