Somatic Symptoms and Psychiatric Disorders
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*Correspondence “A fellow psychiatrist once told an anecdote. He was at a conference about depression in developing countries. The essence of the lectures was that people in those areas commonly expressed depression as physical symptoms. They ‘somaticize’ their depression, to use the medical parlance, complaining of malaise, stomach aches, dizziness and other symptoms that are hard to pin down. Young psychiatrist from third world commented “it is not that we in the third world somaticize depression, but rather that you in the developed world psychologise it?’’
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