Somatization and Psychosomatic Symptoms

Part I. Basic Understanding of Somatization

1. Identity of Somatoform Disorders: Comparison with Depressive Disorders and Anxiety Disorders
Kyung Bong Koh

Part II. Theoretical Approaches to Mind and Body

2. Toward a Philosophy of Life to Underpin Personhood in Medicine
Osborne P. Wiggins, Michael Alan Schwartz

Part III. Biopsychosociocultural Mechanisms in Psychosomatic Medicine

3. Genes, Memes, Culture, and Psychosomatic Medicine: An Integrative Model
Hoyle Leigh

4. Alexithymia and Somatic Symptoms
Gen Komaki

5. Culture and Somatic Symptoms: Hwa-byung, a Culture-Related Anger Syndrome
Sung Kil Min

6. Molecular Mechanism of Sleep–Wake Regulation: From Basic to Translational Research
Yoshihiro Urade

Part IV. Practical Approaches to Patients and Family

7. Psychosomatic Approach to Clinical Practice
Eliana Tossani, Giovanni Andrea Fava

8. Emotional Intelligence, Alexithymia, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Arnstein Finset

9. An Effective Approach to Somatization Assessment and Management
Kyung Bong Koh

10. Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Psychosomatic Medicine
Sae-il Chun

11. Family Assessment and Intervention for Physicians
Gabor I. Keitner

Part V. Specific Psychosomatic Symptoms

12. Pain, Depression, and Anxiety: A Common Language of Human Suffering
Tatjana Sivik, Matteo Bruscoli

13. Psychosomatic Aspects of Fibromyalgia
Masato Murakami, Woesook Kim

14. A Psychosomatic Approach to the Treatment of the Difficult Chronic Pain Patient
Jon Streltzer

Part VI. Specific Psychosomatic Disorders

15. Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy: Mechanism and Clinical Aspects
Jun-Won Lee, Byung-il William Choi

16. Poststroke Depression: Mechanisms and Management
Kyung Bong Koh

17. Cancer in a Psychosomatic Perspective
Adriaan Visser

18. Psychosocial Aspects of Breast Cancer: Focus on Interventions
Kyung Bong Koh

Part VII. Specific Therapeutic Interventions and Biological Effects of Interventions

19. Motivational Interviewing in Psychosomatic Medicine
Sung Hee Cho

20. Wisdom and Wisdom Psychotherapy in Coping with Stress
Michael Linden

21. Current Advances in the Psychopharmacology of Psychosomatic Medicine
Amarendra N. Singh

22. Emotion, Interventions, and Immunity
Kyung Bong Koh

Keywords: Psychology, Health Psychology, Psychiatry, Rehabilitation Medicine, Clinical Psychology