[
US
/saɪˌkoʊsəˈmætɪk/
]
[ UK /sˌaɪkəʊsəmˈætɪk/ ]
[ UK /sˌaɪkəʊsəmˈætɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- used of illness or symptoms resulting from neurosis
How To Use psychosomatic In A Sentence
- That which medicine can't explain we tend to label psychosomatic and blame the patient, a cruel phenomenon all too familiar to those who've had MS, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, and a myriad of other ailments in decades past. John Falk: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And Psychotherapy
- Mental and physical exhaustion retards the growth of body and mind, and it often causes a psychosomatic illness.
- We have identified the psychosomatic traits in modern medicine linked to the reversible unbalance of qi, blood, and body fluid in ill-health.
- States of ‘altered consciousness’, hypnosis, autohypnosis, euphoria, and psychosomatic conditions such as hysteria, may be accompanied by insensitivity to pain.
- You don't want anybody thinking you're having some kind of psychosomatic deal. PAYBACK
- The devils and evil spirits of the next day were perhaps more psychosomatic and drawn from the excesses of the night before than derived from a Celtic past.
- The child may develop school phobias, compulsive eating or psychosomatic illnesses.
- In the psychosomatic sphere it might cause headaches during or because of coitus or a tendency to nausea whenever coitus was performed.
- Conclusion Some psychosocial factors are related to psychosomatic symptoms of women with hyperemesis gravidarum, which provide a theoretical basis for psychological intervention during pregnancy.
- Moreover, chronic diseases of kidneys, lung, brain, liver, joints, etc., and stress related psychosomatic illnesses cause significant morbidity in the general public.