CONTEXT Depression and somatization are often present in patients with chronic low back pain (LBP). OBJECTIVES To measure the presence of depression and somatization in patients with chronic LBP and to study the associations of depression and somatization with somatic dysfunction, LBP severity, back-specific functioning, and general health. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using baseline measur...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that the practice of yoga reduces perceived stress and negative feelings and that it improves psychological symptoms. Our previous study also suggested that long-term yoga training improves stress-related psychological symptoms such as anxiety and anger. However, little is known about the beneficial effects of yoga practice on somatization, the most common...

I n this month's In Review section, all the contributors—Dr François Mai (1), Dr Laurence Kirmayer and colleagues (2), and I—wrestle with the seemingly intractable and endlessly interesting topic of body–mind relations. In the first review article, Dr Mai lays out the justification for a diagnostic category of somatization disorder. He recognizes that the standard monistic approach that accepts...

Objective. This study investigates the relationship between the current diagnostic formulation of PTSD and the symptoms of dissociation, affect dysregulation and somatization. Over the past century, these symptoms consistently have been shown to be related, regardless of whether investigators have approached their subjects prospectively or retrospectively, or from the vantage point of 1) psycho...

Introduction In addition to posing major public health challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected psychological and physical stressors in workplaces as well strain by workers worldwide. Even prior COVID-19, working conditions of early childhood professionals (ECPs) were described critical leading (psycho)somatic complaints. Despite high societal relevance ECPs potential increase caused ther...

OBJECTIVE To review the literature on somatoform disorders in children and adolescents relevant to recertification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. METHOD The psychiatric, pediatric, and psychological literatures were searched for clinical or research articles in the past 10 years dealing with somatization and somatoform disorders. RESULTS Somatizing presentations are orga...

A group of psychiatric outpatients who satisfied the DSM-IIIR criteria for Somatization Disorder (n=33) were compared with a group of other Somatisers (n=32). The results show that somatization disorder was found predominantly in females. Their mean age was 31 and they had a lower income and poor educational level, with more life events and stress in the family. The main symptoms were gastroint...

Aims: The pandemic has had devastating effects across the world particularly on healthcare professionals. We assessed anxiety and depression with somatization to discover psychological of pandemic.
 Methods: 250 workers in a tertiary pediatric teaching hospital were asked respond questionnaire between 1 30 June 2020 responses via three scales including Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9...