Although a disorder may be primarily physical or primarily psychological, it is always a disorder of the whole- not just of the body or psyche. Research has shown that mental and emotional processes are implicated both in good health and in most physical disease. ... Physical appearance plays an important role in personality development and adjustment. Physical Handicaps: Embryologic abnormalities on environmental conditions operating before or after birth may result in physical defects. ... The mechanism for ensuring normal blood chemistry for maintaining constant body temperature, and for...

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