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单词 psychosomatic
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Definition of psychosomatic in English:

psychosomatic

adjective ˌsʌɪkə(ʊ)səˈmatɪkˌsaɪkoʊsəˈmædɪk
  • 1(of a physical illness or other condition) caused or aggravated by a mental factor such as internal conflict or stress.

    her doctor was convinced that most of Edith's problems were psychosomatic
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hospitals report a wave of psychosomatic illnesses among patients since the landing of the Sirians on Earth: headaches, nervous fever, aching joints, insomnia and neurotic behavior.
    • Over time they become more assertive, expressing themselves as compulsions and obsessions, phobias and prejudices, neuroses and psychosomatic illnesses.
    • That it tells more of a psychosomatic illness, - the images are symptomatic of a personal trouble - than it does of a feeling of the war.
    • Although Shorter's book says little about the contemporary experience of psychosomatic illness, it's clear that similar mind-body-culture interplay is very much alive today.
    • We read daily of psychosomatic disorders, and of stress exacerbating asthma, heart disease, gastric ulcers and schizophrenia. ‘Mens sana in corpore sano’, a healthy mind in a health body.
    • Moreover, chronic diseases of kidneys, lung, brain, liver, joints, etc., and stress related psychosomatic illnesses cause significant morbidity in the general public.
    • When early separation anxieties have been traumatic, she says, there are still many possible outcomes, ranging from psychosis and psychosomatic illness to addiction and other acting out pathology.
    • With increasing stress, the incidence of stress related psychosomatic and psychiatric illnesses has increased tremendously.
    • Indeed, asthma is considered by many to be the prototype of psychosomatic illness.
    • Of all the psychoanalysts to write on psychosomatic illness, none was more influential than the Berlin / Chicago psychoanalyst Franz Alexander.
    • Depression, anxiety, and psychosomatic disorders are the most frequently identified mental health consequences among acculturating individuals.
    • Because CFS lacks definitive organic causes, it is often dismissed by physicians as either a psychosomatic illness or a manifestation of clinical depression.
    • He advanced the concept that specific unconscious conflicts are associated with various psychosomatic disorders and are the end results of prolonged physiological states that are caused by repressed conflicts.
    • Psychological approaches to illness have expanded enormously since the medical establishment adopted the concept of psychosomatic illness to explain illnesses that could not otherwise be diagnosed or cured.
    • What distinguishes hysteria from other kinds of neurosis or psychosomatic illness is the mutability of its symptoms, the manner in which trauma can be converted into a potentially infinite array of corporeal manifestations.
    • Hence, our self-reported data are not supportive of the idea that MCS syndrome is primarily a psychiatric or psychosomatic condition.
    • Part 2 on physical and psychosomatic illness opens with Liakopoulou's chapter on the separation-individuation process in adolescents with chronic physical illness.
    • Physically, they have been put under chronic stress, causing spondylitis, back pain, insomnia, and other psychosomatic illnesses.
    • His site investigates psychosomatic illnesses, with emphasis on post traumatic stress disorder, chemical imbalances and childhood stress.
    • You're less likely to suffer from psychosomatic illnesses - digestive disorders, other stress disorders, headaches, vascular stress.
    Synonyms
    (all) in the mind, psychological, irrational, stress-related, stress-induced, subjective, subconscious, unconscious
  • 2Relating to the interaction of mind and body.

    hypnosis involves powerful but little-understood psychosomatic interactions
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Everything that we experience is psychosomatic because the body is always involved, whenever we look through our eyes, whenever we hear through the ears, and in everything that we experience in terms of our feelings and sensations.
    • We surely are psychosomatic unities, ‘animated bodies rather than incarnated souls,’ to use a famous phrase.
    • God did not make us disembodied minds; he made us psychosomatic beings.

Derivatives

  • psychosomatically

  • adverb
    • Some would proclaim that addictions are psychosomatically - induced and maintained in a semi-balanced force field of driving and restraining multidimensional forces.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Upon her capture by police, the woman was sent to a nearby mental ward, where a disorderly orderly psychosomatically parroted her symptoms, much to the hilarious chagrin of the hospital boss.
      • He'd always try and psychosomatically suggest that I had hayfever symptoms, as if to bring them on… ‘Meg, your eyes are looking awfully red… would you like a tissue?’
      • When the boys' parents forbid their erotic rebellion, Manga becomes psychosomatically ill, and is ushered far across a spirit lake, its shores teeming with tree dwarves and useless, fungoid superstition.
      • Aggression was expressed psychosomatically as picking at acne lesions on the skin rather than through direct verbalization.

Rhymes

achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic
 
 

Definition of psychosomatic in US English:

psychosomatic

adjectiveˌsaɪkoʊsəˈmædɪkˌsīkōsəˈmadik
  • 1(of a physical illness or other condition) caused or aggravated by a mental factor such as internal conflict or stress.

    her doctor was convinced that most of Edith's problems were psychosomatic
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hospitals report a wave of psychosomatic illnesses among patients since the landing of the Sirians on Earth: headaches, nervous fever, aching joints, insomnia and neurotic behavior.
    • That it tells more of a psychosomatic illness, - the images are symptomatic of a personal trouble - than it does of a feeling of the war.
    • What distinguishes hysteria from other kinds of neurosis or psychosomatic illness is the mutability of its symptoms, the manner in which trauma can be converted into a potentially infinite array of corporeal manifestations.
    • Because CFS lacks definitive organic causes, it is often dismissed by physicians as either a psychosomatic illness or a manifestation of clinical depression.
    • He advanced the concept that specific unconscious conflicts are associated with various psychosomatic disorders and are the end results of prolonged physiological states that are caused by repressed conflicts.
    • With increasing stress, the incidence of stress related psychosomatic and psychiatric illnesses has increased tremendously.
    • His site investigates psychosomatic illnesses, with emphasis on post traumatic stress disorder, chemical imbalances and childhood stress.
    • Part 2 on physical and psychosomatic illness opens with Liakopoulou's chapter on the separation-individuation process in adolescents with chronic physical illness.
    • Although Shorter's book says little about the contemporary experience of psychosomatic illness, it's clear that similar mind-body-culture interplay is very much alive today.
    • Physically, they have been put under chronic stress, causing spondylitis, back pain, insomnia, and other psychosomatic illnesses.
    • Hence, our self-reported data are not supportive of the idea that MCS syndrome is primarily a psychiatric or psychosomatic condition.
    • When early separation anxieties have been traumatic, she says, there are still many possible outcomes, ranging from psychosis and psychosomatic illness to addiction and other acting out pathology.
    • Indeed, asthma is considered by many to be the prototype of psychosomatic illness.
    • Of all the psychoanalysts to write on psychosomatic illness, none was more influential than the Berlin / Chicago psychoanalyst Franz Alexander.
    • You're less likely to suffer from psychosomatic illnesses - digestive disorders, other stress disorders, headaches, vascular stress.
    • Over time they become more assertive, expressing themselves as compulsions and obsessions, phobias and prejudices, neuroses and psychosomatic illnesses.
    • Psychological approaches to illness have expanded enormously since the medical establishment adopted the concept of psychosomatic illness to explain illnesses that could not otherwise be diagnosed or cured.
    • Depression, anxiety, and psychosomatic disorders are the most frequently identified mental health consequences among acculturating individuals.
    • We read daily of psychosomatic disorders, and of stress exacerbating asthma, heart disease, gastric ulcers and schizophrenia. ‘Mens sana in corpore sano’, a healthy mind in a health body.
    • Moreover, chronic diseases of kidneys, lung, brain, liver, joints, etc., and stress related psychosomatic illnesses cause significant morbidity in the general public.
    Synonyms
    in the mind, all in the mind, psychological, irrational, stress-related, stress-induced, subjective, subconscious, unconscious
    1. 1.1 Relating to the interaction of mind and body.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Everything that we experience is psychosomatic because the body is always involved, whenever we look through our eyes, whenever we hear through the ears, and in everything that we experience in terms of our feelings and sensations.
      • We surely are psychosomatic unities, ‘animated bodies rather than incarnated souls,’ to use a famous phrase.
      • God did not make us disembodied minds; he made us psychosomatic beings.
 
 
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