psychosomatic
pronunciation
How to pronounce psychosomatic in British English:
UK [ˌsaɪkəʊsəˈmætɪk]
How to pronounce psychosomatic in American English:
US [ˌsaɪkoʊsəˈmætɪk]
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- Adjective:
- used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis
Word Origin
- psychosomatic (adj.)
- 1847, "pertaining to the relation between mind and body," from Greek psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + somatikos, from soma (genitive somatos) "body" (see somato-). Applied from 1938 to physical disorders with psychological causes. Etymologically it could as easily apply to emotional disorders with physical causes, but it is rarely used as such.
Example
- 1. Girls often develop performance anxiety and psychosomatic symptoms such as stomachaches .
- 2. Psychosomatic diseases ; cisapride ; doxepin ; functional dyspepsia .
- 3. Orbiting astronauts have even become clinically depressed and panicked at psychosomatic illnesses .
- 4. Journal of psychosomatic obstetrics & gynecology .
- 5. A study of psychosomatic reactions , self-care , and related factors of post-op mechanical valve replacement patients one month later .