Somatic

Somatic means " that which refers to the body; physically ". The term derives from the Greek σῶμα, soma ( plural: somata ) to designate the body or from the body. Somatogen contrast means "that which is derived from the body " comes from it or out of it - the literal meaning of the Greek- syllable -tions accordingly - is created and thus usually is physically limited. Somatogenesis is therefore the antonym of psychogenesis.

The term " somatic " is used primarily in medical terminology to demarcate physical or organic mental illness and so-called functional disorders. From somatoform disorders is the speech when no medical sufficient organic causes of the defendants by the patient physical complaints or symptoms are found, and so-called general symptoms are in the foreground.

Since interact mostly physical and psychological factors, is then spoken of a " somaticism " when certain disease teachings solely consider physical aspects, see also the position of the somaticist.

In neurology, the term " soma " the skeletal and muscular structures of the body which are usually innervated arbitrary. In contrast, the term " viscera ", which refers to the non- arbitrary innervated viscera. Also the nervous system as such may suffer as a body somatic ( neurologically ).

In psychiatry somatotherapy means all physical methods of treatment in contrast to psychotherapy. These somatic processes have overall a lesser professional reputation.

The term psychosomatic symptoms less be characterized in Western medicine, in which interactions between mental and physical processes are assumed, but rather characterizes disease manifestations in which the influence of mental processes is examined for the development and the course of physical illness. A psychosomatic view of mental illness - if they do not (eg, triggered by mental illness internist Leiden) already in the field of organ medicine fall - has been rather theoretical importance (eg the questions: Is there heaped somatic complaints, such as stomach ulcers in severe mental illness - Are mental illnesses only the somatic side of the diseases of the brain) → Endogenous psychosis?.

Traditional Chinese medicine views and treats diseases somatopsychisch and assigns mental states -energy configurations in the body.

The Physiotherapy aims to achieve a health and sometimes especially mental influence and improvement on somatopsychischem way. Naturopathy is similar to understand here. Psychotropic drugs also act somatically.

Some representatives of complementary or alternative medicine grasp the concept Soma on. Then you mean the living, coming from inside perception of themselves and distinguish them against the physiological system " body " with its objectively measurable properties. They assume that this self - perception or self fundamentally different from the external look at what we call a body is different.

In biology, the terms Soma, somatic tissue cells and somatic cells used to delineate tissues or cells of the germ cells. All cells that are not germ cells, the definitional setting somatic cells are thus accordingly.