physioneurosis
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
physioneurosis (countable and uncountable, plural physioneuroses)
- (medicine) The somatic component of a psychosomatic ailment.