Luigi Grassi,Rosangela Caruso,Anna Costantini
Luigi Grassi
Communication is the corner stone of the relationship with the patient in all medical settings with the main aims of creating a good inter-personal relationship, exchanging information, and making treatment-related decisions. In a rapidly c...
Psychosomatic medicine in the 21st century: understanding mechanisms and barriers to utilization [0.03%]
21世纪心身医学：理解机制和利用障碍
Thomas N Wise,Richard Balon
Thomas N Wise
The psychosomatic approach arose in antiquity as mankind looked for explanations for illness and death. With the rise of modern medicine, the links between emotions and medical conditions, such as cardiac disease and diabetes, were describe...
Renato D Alarcón
Renato D Alarcón
Bioethical dimensions of cultural psychosomatics: the need for an ethical research approach [0.03%]
文化心身医学的生物伦理学维度：开展生物伦理学研究的必要性
Fernando Lolas
Fernando Lolas
Contemporary psychosomatics is a research-based technical discipline and its social power depends on how scientific knowledge is obtained and applied in practice, considering cultural contexts. This article presents the view that the dialog...
Laurence J Kirmayer,Lauren Ban
Laurence J Kirmayer
This chapter reviews some key aspects of current research in cultural psychiatry and explores future prospects. The first section discusses the multiple meanings of culture in the contemporary world and their relevance for understanding men...
Hernán Silva
Hernán Silva
Significant differences in response to psychotropic drugs are observed in various ethnic and cultural groups. Ethnopsychiatry is the study of how culture and genetic differences in human groups determine and influence the response to psycho...
John M de Figueiredo,Sara Gostoli
John M de Figueiredo
In most societies, members of a culture have attempted to help each other in times of trouble with various types of healing methods. Demoralization - an individual experience related to a group phenomenon - responds to certain elements shar...
Transcultural aspects of somatic symptoms in the context of depressive disorders [0.03%]
文化背景下的抑郁障碍躯体症状研究
Issa P Bagayogo,Alejandro Interian,Javier I Escobar
Issa P Bagayogo
Somatic symptoms are a common presentation of mental disorders or psychological distress worldwide, and may often coexist with depressive and anxiety symptoms, thus accounting for what might be the most frequent psychiatric syndrome in prim...
Joseph Westermeyer
Joseph Westermeyer
For the last five centuries, France's international influence has been constant. This has been particularly evident in the areas of general culture, history and science. In psychiatry, the role of Pinel during the French Revolution, and the...
Opening up mental health service delivery to cultural diversity: current situation, development and examples from three northern European countries [0.03%]
面向文化多样性的精神卫生服务供给：现状、发展与北欧三国案例分析
Sofie Bäärnhielm,Cecilie Jávo,Mike-Oliver Mösko
Sofie Bäärnhielm
There are inequalities in health among migrants and local populations in Europe. Due to migration, Germany, Norway and Sweden have become ethnic culturally diverse nations. There are barriers to mental health care access for refugees, migra...