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In my research for my webpaper, an article ("Effects of Writing About Stressful Experiences on Symptom Reduction in Patients with Asthma or Rheumatoid Arthritis" in JAMA 1999;281:1304-1309 available for free on the JAMA website.) was referred to me by a friend which I think bears on the discussion we had in class about drugs v. therapy. The article describes the therapeutic value of journaling for patients suffering from asthma and/or rheumatoid arthritis. Patients of one group were instructed to journal their experiences pertaining to their disease while a control group did not journal. both groups were undergoing pharmacological treatment, but the group with also had psychological therapy (journaling) showed improved health over those who did not journal.
I thought this was a particularly interesting study. While we focused our discussion on what are considered primarily "psychological" disorders (depression, ADD, bi-polarity etc) this study focused on the benefit of psychological therapy had on primarily "somatic" disorders. For me, this really blurs the mind-body distinction.