somatist

[ soh-muh-tist ]

nounPsychiatry.
  1. a psychiatrist who considers all mental illnesses to have physical origins.

Origin of somatist

1
1670–80, in sense “materialist”; somat- + -ist

Other words from somatist

  • so·ma·tism, noun

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