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100 1 $aShorter, Edward.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50022941
245 10 $aFrom the mind into the body :$bthe cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms /$cEdward Shorter.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press ;$aToronto :$bMaxwell Macmillan ;$aNew York :$bMaxwell Macmillan International,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $aix, 268 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. The Play of Biology and Culture. The Evidence of Biology. Psychosomatic Illness: A Biological Basis? The Play of Culture -- 2. Chronic Illness in the Comfortable Classes. Psychosomatic Illness and Social Class. Chronic Illness. Wealthy Invalids. The Bed Cases. Battlefield Abdomen -- 3. 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 -- 4. Ethnic Components. The Psychosomatic Symptoms of Jews. Jewish and Non-Jewish Perspectives. East European Jews as Hypochondriacal Patients -- 5. The Cultural Face of Melancholy. Physical Symptoms and Depression. Melancholia. Nonmelancholic Depression in Past Times. Changes in the Physical Experience of Depression -- 6. 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.
505 0 $aMiddle-Class Life and Intimacy. Do Doctors Make Their Patients Sick? -- 7. Cultural Shaping. An Example from the 1990s. An Intellectual Context. Social and Medical Correctness.
520 $aPsychosomatic 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.
520 8 $aWhen 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. Drawing on a vast array of engrossing, colorful, and often humorous historical case studies, he explores the newly discovered relationship between social identity and the varieties of psychosomatic disorders.
520 8 $aTracing the interplay of cultural and biological factors in psychosomatic distress, Shorter shows that while some individuals are genetically more predisposed than others to develop chronic illness, their particular historical era and circumstances will influence the likely nature of their maladies. Women have more abdominal problems than men. Eastern European Jews have more nervous disorders than other ethnic groups.
520 8 $aBoston Irish tend to experience their distress in their faces and throats, while Boston Italians have more general malaise. Adolescent middle-class girls are most prone to anorexia nervosa. An extraordinary number of fashionable wealthy people became invalids in the early part of this century and spent their lives traveling from spa to spa in search of a cure
520 8 $a. Shorter explores how symptoms are forged by a number of factors, including the stress caused by changing patterns of family life and by patterns of persecution and the influence of the medical community and the media, which position some symptoms as more acceptable than others. His lively anecdotes reveal for the first time just how stress, popular notions, and social forces together construct many of our symptoms and create much of our pain.
650 0 $aMedicine, Psychosomatic$vCross-cultural studies.
650 2 $aPsychosomatic Medicine.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011611
650 2 $aCross-Cultural Comparison.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003431
852 00 $boff,hsl$hRC49$i.S354 1994