somatization in English

noun
1
the production of recurrent and multiple medical symptoms with no discernible organic cause.
A few patients are seriously disabled through a long history of many unexplained symptoms, defined as somatisation disorder.

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1. Alexithymia and somatization are discussed as consequences of coping with male infertility.

2. Alexithymia was measured by the 20-item-Toronto-Alexithymia-Scale;somatization was measured by the Symptom Checklist-90-R.

3. In a previous study, we found a higher degree of alexithymia and somatization in infertile men (Hum Reprod 2001 Vol.16(3),587–592).

4. Objective: The criteria for borderline personality disorder seem to select patients with very high rates of Briquet's syndrome (hysteria), somatization disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and substance abuse disorders

5. The DCPR dimensions of health anxiety, demoralization and alexithymia have been recognized in oncology, with a low overlap with a formal DSM psychiatric diagnosis; the DCPR dimensions dealing with the patients’ ways of perceiving, experiencing, evaluating, and responding to their health status (abnormal illness behaviour) have also been demonstrated, while more data are needed with regard to the complex area of somatization and somatic symptom presentation of distress in cancer patients, for which the DCPR clusters of somatization (functional somatic symptoms secondary to psychiatric disorders, persistent somatization, conversion symptoms, and anniversary reaction) can be of help.

6. Briquet’s Syndrome (somatization disorder, DSM-IV-TR #300.81) In Briquet’s syndrome, first described by Paul Briquet in 1859, patients feel that they have been sickly most of their lives and complain of a multitude of symptoms referable to numerous different organ systems