somatist

[ soh-muh-tist ]
/ ˈsoʊ mə tɪst /

noun Psychiatry.

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

Origin of somatist

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

OTHER WORDS FROM somatist

so·ma·tism, noun

Words nearby somatist

somatic reproduction, somatic sensory cortex, somatic swallow, somatic therapy, somaticize, somatist, somatization, somatization disorder, somato-, somatochrome, somatoform