Full Description
The body is a cultural vessel, giving voice to the unspoken words of the soul and transforming the nuances of distress into a script of symptoms that echoes across diverse cultural landscapes.
Within the intricate tapestry of human experience, certain threads stand out, weaving a story that defies boundaries and spans the globe. Somatization Across Cultures unfurls these threads, illuminating the diverse landscape of somatisation disorders and their interplay with culture, identity, and healing practices. As you embark on this literary voyage, prepare to traverse continents and minds, exploring the profound connection between the physical and the psychological, the cultural and the clinical.
Part of the Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, this volume brings together the various somatisation syndromes: their description, presentation, assessment, and management in one place. It is a fascinating read for any psychiatrist, physician, clinical psychologist, public health specialist, nurse and other
healthcare professional, as well as any sociologist, anthropologist, and policymaker, and anyone else interested in this area of psychiatry.
Contents
Part 1 - General issues related to somatisation and culture 1: Introduction to Somatization across cultures 2: General concept about somatisation 3: Culture and Somatisation Part 2 - Specific issues related to somatisation and culture 4: Specific issues related to somatization and culture 5: Understanding somatization from a neuroscience perspective 6: Cultural evolution of Somatization disorders 7: Assessment and challenges of the use of assessment tools across cultures 8: Somatization in children and adolescents across cultures 9: Somatization disorders in incarcerated populations Part 3 - Somatization in different countries and regions 10: Somatization disorders in the United Kingdom 11: Somatization in Russia: the historical research aspects and their influence on the clinical practice 12: Somatization in Paraguay 13: Somatization disorders in Central and western Asia 14: Somatization In North America 15: Somatization in South-East Asia 16: Somatization disorders in Central and North Europe 17: Somatization In Africa 18: Somatization Disorders in South America Part 4 - Section Management of somatization across cultures 19: General Principles in the Management of Somatization 20: Psychopharmacological approaches in somatization disorders across cultures 21: Psychotherapeutic Models on Somatization across Cultures 22: Role of Traditional Healers and Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Mental Health 23: Somatization across cultures: Epilogue
