单词 | psychosomatics |
释义 | psychosomaticsn. 1. With singular agreement. The branch of science concerned with the relationship between the mind and the body. Also: psychosomatic medicine. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > [noun] psychology1749 psychophysiology1839 physiopsychology1875 psychophysics1875 experimental psychology1878 psychosomatics1938 the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > medical study of mind or body relations psychosomatics1938 psychosomatism1960 1938 Science 9 Sept. 226/1 The tendency toward excessive specialization is counterbalanced by a tendency toward hyphenation which brings disciplines into union. Witness psycho-biology, neuro-psychiatry, bio-physics, psycho-somatics, etc. 1966 N.Y. State Jrnl. Med. 66 3157/1 The view of the skin as a major organ of communication is not a new one; it is a basic concept of psychosomatic medicine. But if the ECM proposed here are more fully identified, some of the ‘metaphors’ of psychosomatics will turn out to be descriptions of real events. 1991 E. Rayner Independent Mind in Brit. Psychoanal. xi. 255 Paediatrics and psychosomatics were at the core of his consideration of analytic theory. 2. Usually with plural agreement. The psychosomatic aspects of an illness, phenomenon, etc. ΚΠ 1943 S. Cobb Borderlands of Psychiatry 157 The clinical data of psychosomatic medicine concerns every physiological system of the body... One might call psychosomatics the study of the physiology of the emotions. 1975 B. Wood Killing Gift iv. i. 131 He chaired a..conference on the psychosomatics of cancer. 2002 D. T. Meyers Gender in Mirror 9 Bartky pursues the issue of sexual identity further in an essay on the psychosomatics of women's eroticism. Derivatives ˌpsychosoˈmaticist n. = psychosomatist n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > one who medically studies mind or body relations psychosomatist?1817 psychosomaticist1954 1954 Q. Rev. Biol. 29 405/1 It appears that a psychosomaticist's faith in the psychic origin of disease is too deeply rooted to be easily changed. 1996 Gen. Hospital Psychiatry 18 44 Some services are run by C-L [= consultation-liaison] psychiatrists, others are run by C-L psychosomaticists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1938 |
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