psychosomaticadj.
/ˌsʌɪkə(ʊ)səˈmatɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌsaɪkoʊsəˈmædɪk/ 1. Involving or depending on both the mind and the body.
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the world > life > the body > [adjective]
lichamlyc888
fleshlyc1175
outward?c1225
bodilyc1380
corporalc1400
personal?a1439
carnal1488
earthya1533
carrionc1540
corporatec1580
nervous1616
fleshy1630
somandric1716
physical1737
somatic1775
corporeal1795
psychosomatica1834
physico-mental1844
somal1900
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > [adjective]
physico-psychicala1832
psychosomatica1834
psychophysiological1839
physico-mental1844
psychophysical1847
physico-psychological1855
physiopsychological1872
psychophysic1883
physiopsychic1890
psychophysiologic1898
mind-body1907
physiopsychologic1932
a1834 in S. T. Coleridge Shorter Wks. & Fragm. (1995) II. ii. 1444 Hope and Fear..have slipt out their collars, and no longer run in couples..from the Kennel of my Psycho–somatic Ology.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash II. xi. 119 The nocturnal and diurnal attendance of a Psycho-physical physician, who knows the Psychosomatic relation of body and mind.
1933 H. Devine Recent Adv. in Psychiatry (ed. 2) i. 1 The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the modern concept of ‘psychosomatic unity’, or, as it is sometimes termed, the concept of ‘the organism-as-a-whole’.
1976 Verbatim Sept. 11/2 The biblical view of personality was psychosomatic (and distinct from Platonic dualism—‘the body is the prison-house of the soul’). So in both the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, what we would call psychic or spiritual states are freely ascribed to physical organs and other parts of the human anatomy.
1991 E. Rayner Independent Mind in Brit. Psychoanal. vi. 133 Psychosomatic unity is essential for healthy living, and it is a precondition for total involvement with shared reality.
2. Medicine and Psychology.
a. Of, relating to, or designating a physical disorder caused or aggravated by psychological factors. Also: suffering from such a disorder (rare).
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > manifesting physical symptoms
psychosomatic1938
somatizing1966
1914 B. Sidis Symptomatology, Psychognosis & Diagnosis of Psychopathic Dis. 381 The psychosomatic patient is not only deprived of access to the subconscious elements of his malady, but he does not even suspect that such subconscious systems are at the root of his affliction.
1938 S. Beckett Murphy x. 219 Murphy..did not suffer from this—er—psychosomatic fistula.
1947 J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus 170 She called her mother's [headaches] psychosomatic and psychotic.
1958 H. L. Ansbacher & R. R. Ansbacher Indiv. Psychol. of Adler ii. xi. 286 The role of organ inferiority in psychosomatic disturbances proper will be discussed in the next chapter.
1975 B. Wood Killing Gift v. iii. 150 We've built up a really solid case, at least statistically, for psychosomatic influence on breast-cancer incidence.
1990 K. Vonnegut Hocus Pocus xxxix. 290 I itched all over with a sudden attack of psychosomatic hives.
b. Of, relating to, or designating the study of such disorders, or the branch of medicine concerned with this.
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [adjective] > relating to medical study of mind or body relations
psychosomatic1939
1939 Psychiatry 2 465/1 Psychosomatic Medicine covers a different and broader field. Its object is to study in their interrelation the psychological and physiological aspects of all normal and abnormal bodily functions and thus to integrate somatic therapy and psychotherapy.
1960 20th Cent. Mar. 267 Psychosomatic research has revealed that almost every common disease can have an emotional component.
2000 Jrnl. Psychomatic Res. 48 321 It has been evident in recent years that accumulating psychosomatic evidence has had little impact on cardiology.
Derivatives
ˌpsychosoˈmatically adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > [adverb]
psychophysically1847
psychophysiologically1892
psychosomatically1923
1923 C. R. Griffith Gen. Introd. Psychol. xix. 467 The workers in an industry achieve success or fail because they are or are not fitted psychosomatically and do the sort of thing they have been instructed to do.
1944 F. Dunbar in S. Lorand Psychoanalysis Today 33 Most sufferers..must be treated psychosomatically because the purely physiological approach is inadequate.
1957 Time 4 Nov. 56/2 It was the story of a girl who went psychosomatically deaf in emotional flight from her role as the ears of a deaf father, mother and brother.
1998 Daily Tel. 11 Sept. 27/4 His Miller is a dignified, decent, faintly priggish man, whose disciplined self-possession is only belied by a psychosomatically quivering hand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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