From the Mind into the Body The Cultural Origins of Psychosomatic Symptoms

Name: From the Mind into the Body The Cultural Origins of Psychosomatic Symptoms
Price: 5.19 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780029286661

ISBN-10: 0029286662

ISBN-13: 9780029286661

Edition: 1994

Authors: Edward Shorter

List price: $24.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $5.19

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

"Psychosomatic illness has no apparent physiological cause. By definition, it originates in the mind. But now, in this fascinating work, the foremost authority on the history of psychosomatic illness shows that the forms it takes are in fact a product of something much larger. Symptoms are produced not just by an individual's psychology, but also by one's genetic history and even by the time and culture in which we live. When we fall ill with psychosomatic pain, our symptoms most often - and quite unconsciously - reflect our particular ethnic group, age, class, or gender." "In this landmark work, Edward Shorter continues his important inquiry into the nature of psychosomatic illness.…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 11/15/1993
Binding: Children's Board Books
Pages: 250
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


The Play of Biology and Culture


The Evidence of Biology


Psychosomatic Illness: A Biological Basis?


The Play of Culture


Chronic Illness in the Comfortable Classes


Psychosomatic Illness and Social Class


Chronic Illness


Wealthy Invalids


The Bed Cases


Battlefield Abdomen


Women at Risk


Women's Greater Risk: Not a Myth


Somatic Styles


The Role of Economic and Physical Misery


Trauma


Disappointment and Enmeshment


The Matriarch


Were There Only Female Invalids?


Constant Themes


Ethnic Components


The Psychosomatic Symptoms of Jews


Jewish and Non-Jewish Perspectives


East European Jews as Hypochondriacal Patients


The Cultural Face of Melancholy


Physical Symptoms and Depression


Melancholia


Nonmelancholic Depression in Past Times


Changes in the Physical Experience of Depression


Youth and Psychosomatic Illness


The Symptom of Self-Starvation


How Symptoms Are Created


Loss of Appetite and the Launching of Anorexia Nervosa


One Symptom Among Many


Culture and Fat


Middle-Class Life and Intimacy


Do Doctors Make Their Patients Sick?


Cultural Shaping


An Example from the 1990s


An Intellectual Context


Social and Medical Correctness


Notes


Index