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Book SynopsisThe Mind-Body Interface in Somatization addresses the underlying psychological and personality factors predisposing patients to experience somatization and somatizing syndromes. It is directed at the needs of the practicing medical, psychiatric, and psychological clinician.
Trade ReviewThe authors tackle the complexity of somatization head on. Neuroplasticity, ego psychology, existential psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology are all given their due. Treatment recommendations are useful and solid. -- Walter A. Brown, M.D, Brown University and Tufts University School of Medicine
This is a much needed book on a long neglected topic. Somatization is a problem that has been well-described but poorly understood for many years. The book is illuminating. Jonathan Cole’s contribution, probably the last words he wrote for publication in his long life, is classic Cole: wise yet playful, cautious yet ready to take action, acknowledging uncertainty yet offering hope. It is so typical of him that his last statement in clinical psychopharmacology, a field he had founded 50 years before with a handful of others, was a thoughtful, provocative, nicely researched little essay concerning an area that few had thought about and about which only a little was known. -- J. Alexander Bodkin, MD, chief of the Clinical Psychopharmacology Research Program, McLean Hospital
Somatization is an underappreciated aspect of medical care. This book addresses the need to weave the science and the art of medicine into a whole. Individuals are a complexity of physiologic and emotional interactions influenced by cultural expectations, societal norms, personal experiences, and spiritual orientation. The authors recognize this truth. This book challenges us to examine professional objectiveness and scientific certainty while remembering that there is a person within the patient that presents to the clinician. -- Bruce P. Bates, DO, Departments of Geriatric Medicine and Family Medicine, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
The book itself is comprised of 11 chapters covering ideas about somatization from every conceivable aspect, whether conventional or unusual. Among those, there is a hankering after dialectical behaviour therapy in the management of chronic somatization. All of the chapters are well-written, clear, and reasonable. There are many discussions of related theoretical and social issues which offer thoughts for consideration in a broader focus. The book is nicely produced and easy to read. * The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 1: Somatization and the Power of Conventional Wisdom Chapter 2 2: Somatization and Its Discontents Chapter 3 3: A View from outside the Box Chapter 4 4: Ambivalence and Progressive Regression in Somatization Chapter 5 5: Perception and Multi-Level Perceptual Diagnosis Chapter 6 6: Dealing with Impasse Resistance Chapter 7 7: Cognitive Behavioral Treatments of Chronic Somatization Chapter 8 8: Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Chronic Somatization Chapter 9 9: The Situational Somatizing Patient in Treatment Chapter 10 10: Psychopharmacology and Somatization Chapter 11 11: Death or Transformation
