Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The presentation of physical symptoms whose cause cannot be identified, often associated with stress, anxiety, or other psychological factors.
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- noun medicine The generation of
physical symptoms of apsychiatric condition such asanxiety
Etymologies
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Examples
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Patients also completed a questionnaire about somatization, anxiety and depression.
Lactose intolerance may sometimes be in the head, not the gut 2011
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However, when Basilisco looked at those with what he calls "altered somatization," he found that "patients with altered somatization are four times more likely to report lactose intolerance."
Lactose intolerance may sometimes be in the head, not the gut 2011
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Patients also completed a questionnaire about somatization, anxiety and depression.
Lactose intolerance may sometimes be in the head, not the gut 2011
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However, when Basilisco looked at those with what he calls "altered somatization," he found that "patients with altered somatization are four times more likely to report lactose intolerance."
Lactose intolerance may sometimes be in the head, not the gut 2011
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Perhaps more surprising, the experimental group experienced broad improvements in their psychological well-being, including fewer hallucinations, less emotional withdrawal, and less somatization, meaning the manifestation of psychological distress in physical symptoms.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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Call it a somatization, an unconscious process by which we act out psychological stress upon the body.
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Perhaps more surprising, the experimental group experienced broad improvements in their psychological well-being, including fewer hallucinations, less emotional withdrawal, and less somatization, meaning the manifestation of psychological distress in physical symptoms.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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Perhaps more surprising, the experimental group experienced broad improvements in their psychological well-being, including fewer hallucinations, less emotional withdrawal, and less somatization, meaning the manifestation of psychological distress in physical symptoms.
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010
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She notes that a large percentage of women who are given diagnoses of borderline personality disorder, multiple personality disorder, and somatization disorder have a history of sexual abuse.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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She notes that a large percentage of women who are given diagnoses of borderline personality disorder, multiple personality disorder, and somatization disorder have a history of sexual abuse.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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