psychosomatistn.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊˈsəʊmətɪst/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊˈsoʊmədəst/ A believer in an intimate relationship between the mind and the body; spec. an expert or specialist in, or an advocate of, psychosomatic medicine.
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > one who medically studies mind or body relations
psychosomatist?1817
psychosomaticist1954
?1817 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1992) III. 396 Mesmerists, Spiritualists, or Psychosomatists.
1854 J. C. Bucknill Unsoundness of Mind 15 The psycho-somatists find in the liability of the cerebral instrument to disease, a reasonable basis for the irresponsibility of the insane.
1949 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 62 309 A good word is spoken for the wisdom and skill of the competent osteopathic physiclan and a bad word for the hasty ‘psychosomatist’.
1960 20th Cent. Mar. 268 Psychosomatists believe..that each of us possesses a built-in homeostatic mechanism designed to keep us healthy.
1991 E. Rayner Independent Mind in Brit. Psychoanal. vii. 175 This line of thinking has been pioneered by French and also American analysts and psychosomatists..and influences their investigation of psychosomatic illness.
Derivatives
psychoˈsomatism n. = psychosomatics n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > medical study of mind or body relations
psychosomatics1938
psychosomatism1960
1960 20th Cent. Mar. 269 Psychosomatism is not, therefore, a ‘craze’. Until less than a century ago every great medical school—Hippocratean and Christian alike—subscribed to what Mr. Jelly sneers at as the ‘argot’ of treating ‘the whole man’.
2004 R. Price Carnal Thoughts xii. 287 In the instance of illness..questions of intentionality and/or psychosomatism emerge and merge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.?1817