Psychosocial vs Psychosomatic - What's the difference?
psychosocial | psychosomatic |
(of behaviour) having both psychological and social aspects
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Pertaining to both the mind and the body.
(medicine, psychology) Pertaining to physical diseases, symptoms etc. which have mental causes.
As adjectives the difference between psychosocial and psychosomatic
is that psychosocial is (of behaviour) having both psychological and social aspects while psychosomatic is pertaining to both the mind and the body.psychosocial
English
Adjective
(-)- It seems to me that most of those who adhere to an
organicist position in psychiatry espouse a system of
values of which they are unaware. They imply that they recognize as
scientific only physics (and its branches), but instead of
asserting this, they say that they object to psychosocial the-
ories only because they are false. [...]
