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 culturaland 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 otherhealthcare professional, as well as any sociologist, anthropologist, and policymaker, and anyone else interested in this area of psychiatry.
Part 1 - General issues related to somatisation and culture; Introduction to Somatization across cultures; General concept about somatisation; Culture and Somatisation; Part 2 - Specific issues related to somatisation and culture; Specific issues related to somatization and culture; Understanding somatization from a neuroscience perspective; Cultural evolution of Somatization disorders; Assessment and challenges of the use of assessment tools across cultures; Somatization in children and adolescents across cultures; Somatization disorders in incarcerated populations; Part 3 - Somatization in different countries and regions; Somatization disorders in the United Kingdom; Somatization in Russia: the historical research aspects and their influence on the clinical practice; Somatization in Paraguay; Somatization disorders in Central and western Asia; Somatization In North America; Somatization in South-East Asia; Somatization disorders in Central and North Europe; Somatization In Africa; Somatization Disorders in South America; Part 4 - Section Management of somatization across cultures; General Principles in the Management of Somatization; Psychopharmacological approaches in somatization disorders across cultures; Psychotherapeutic Models on Somatization across Cultures; Role of Traditional Healers and Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Mental Health; Somatization across cultures: Epilogue;
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