Physioneurosis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The somatic component of a psychosomatic ailment. countable, uncountable

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.

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