somatization
- noun
- /ˌsoʊməˈtaɪzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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somatización
- Manu, Matthews, and Lane (1988) prospectively studied 100 patients with CFS and found that 64 had one or more psychiatric problems (mood disorders, anxiety, and somatization disorder) that were considered a major cause of their fatigue.
- somatization and anxiety
- somatization and depression
- somatization disorder
Examples
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Somatization refers to the expression of psychological illness through physical symptoms.
Academic text (2015) -
Schwab-Stone and her associates reported a correlation of .38 between lifetime exposure to community violence and internalizing symptoms (anxiety, depression, and somatization) among a sample of middle school students in an urban public school system.
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Women experience grief with more symptoms of despair, anger, loss of control, somatization, and death anxiety.
Academic text (2005) -
For example, tendencies to express mental health problems in terms of bodily symptoms—somatization—is common among some Hispanic and Asian groups.
Academic text (1991) -
In these screenings, information was obtained for six problem domains (delinquency, aggression, anxiety, somatization, hyperactivity, and depression) from three sources (teachers, peers, and self-reports).
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Somatization can occur when a person feels stressed but does not recognize the emotional cause and instead experiences physical pain from somatization.
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The doctor explained that somatization might lead to unexplained symptoms like headaches or stomach aches due to emotional distress.
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After experiencing a traumatic event, he noticed increased somatization, manifesting as fatigue and persistent leg pain without any medical reason.
Synonyms
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Physical symptoms caused by stress or strong emotions without a clear medical cause
Surface Forms
Morphology
somatization = somatize (opaque) = somat + ization
The noun is regularly formed from the verb somatize with the productive suffix -ization.
Etymology
Somatization comes from the Greek root soma, meaning 'body', plus the ending -ization, meaning 'a process', and you can see the same root in somatic, which means 'of the body'. So somatization is the process where emotional or mental problems show up as real physical symptoms in the body, which is why people can feel pain even when doctors find no physical illness.