APA Dictionary of Psychology

somatopsychosis

Updated on 04/19/2018
n.
  1. a psychosis marked by delusions that involve the person’s body or body parts.
  2. a psychosis that is due to a bodily (physical) disease. [defined by U.S. psychiatrist Elmer Ernest Southard (1876–1920)]
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