physioneurosis

English

Etymology

Coined by Abram Kardiner in the 1940s in an effort to replace actual neurosis, a literal translation of German Aktualneurose in Freud's work.

Noun

physioneurosis (countable and uncountable, plural physioneuroses)

  1. (medicine) The somatic component of a psychosomatic ailment.

Antonyms

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