somatize

More practically, the body never lies: if one holds a significant personal secret, the body will experience tension wherever we somatize our fears.

I do not dream, I somatize.

It has been argued that the Chinese traditionally deny or somatize emotional depression (although since the early 1980s, the Chinese denial of depression may have modified drastically).

"Men tend not to say that psychological stress associated with cancer diagnosis and treatment is a problem, but they tend to somatize -- to manifest mental pain as pain in one's body -- those stresses, reporting headaches, backaches," Kim said.

"Based on the tendency of patients with PNES to somatize (to manifest mental pain as pain in one's body), we hypothesized that identifying and modifying cognitive distortions and environmental triggers for PNES would reduce PNES."

Women were more apt to somatize religious experience and to write in intense bodily metaphors; women mystics were more likely than men to receive graphically physical visions of God; both men and women were inclined to attribute to women and encourage in them intense asceticisms and ecstasies.