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somatization

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somatization [‚sō·məd·ə′zā·shən]
(psychology)
A type of neurosis manifested in neurasthenias, hypochondriacal symptoms, and conversion hysterias.


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Conversion and Somatization disorders commonly known owing to panic - Here the patients experience symptoms of multi sensory, digestive sexual and neurological disorders.
The promising prognoses found for physical health when adequate social support exists led to the assumption that strong social support aids in the reduction of depression, somatization (physical symptoms that arise from depression, for example), and other mental disorders.
A perception of God as remote was also positively associated with all of the measures of psychopathology except somatization.
 
 
 
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