Question

Using your Roots and Affixes chart, along with the following context clue, explain the meaning of psychosomatic. Click here for the Roots and Affixes chart. Since the doctor found no discernable physical cause for the man's rash, but knew that he had been suffering anxiety attacks, she determined the symptoms to be psychosomatic.

Answer 1

A psychosomatic symptom is a physical condition or disease, triggered or increased by a mental element, like an inner conflict or depression.

psycho-: a word that implies relation with the psyche, therefore relates to the mind, linked to psychology or psychiatry; Of the mind.

-Somatic: that has a relation with, or affects the body; Of the body, physical