Book Review: Somatization: The Mind—Body Interface in Somatization: When Symptom Becomes Disease

Somatization disorder: a practical review.

OBJECTIVE This paper reviews the present state of knowledge on the etiology, prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment of somatization disorder (SD). METHOD A comprehensive review of the literature on SD is described under the above headings. RESULTS SD is a common condition that is not well managed by many physicians. Patients with SD get caught between the cracks of the health care system, wit...

Preventing somatization

Countless cross-sectional surveys of primary and secondary care have demonstrated the ubiquitous nature of medically unexplained symptoms. If grouping diverse symptoms under one heading is appropriate, they account for over half of all new presentations in secondary medical care (Nimnuan et al. 2001a) and a sizeable proportion of ‘frequent attenders ’ in secondary care have predominantly medica...

Differential symptom expression and somatization in Thai versus U.S. children.

Individuals react in a variety of ways when experiencing environmental challenges exceeding their capacity to cope adaptively. Some researchers have suggested that Asian populations tend to react to excessive stress with somatic symptoms, whereas Western populations tend to respond more with affective or depressive symptoms. Other researchers, however, have suggested that such differences may r...

Chinese Somatization & Symptom Interpretation 1 INFLUENCE OF A COMMON RELIGIOUS FAITH ON SOMATIZATION AND SYMPTOM INTERPRETATION IN A CROSS-CULTURAL ROMAN CATHOLIC SAMPLE

Trauma, dissociation and somatization

In this paper, a way of accounting the traumatic experience, its effects on the individual, and the ways to help its assimilation with special reference to somatization is described. A dynamic model that puts the traumatic experiences in relation with the subject, and the processes through which both the subject and the experience become what they are, is contrary to the current medical model o...