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KMID : 0607520030110010003
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Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
2003 Volume.11 No. 1 p.3 ~ p.14
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Culture and Somatization
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Kim Kwang-Iel
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Abstract
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In this review article, the meanings of the somatization phenomena were reviewed and discussed in terms of cultural psychiatric view point. The somatization is an universal psychopathology. But frequency, pattern of symptoms and it’s cultural factors in the conversion of emotional distress to the somatization are much different from culture to culture. Conventional impression and monotonous interpretation that somatization is prevalent in the non-Western or traditional society and it is due to poor differentiation of the psyche is seriously criticized. Cultural metaphors of expressing emotional pain, traditional disease concepts, conventional way of adopting a given culture and society, and medical delivery system and milieu could be regarded as important cultural factors of the somatization. Cultural meanings of somatization in Korea were summarized and discussed. Finally, clinical guide line for transcultural practice were summarized.
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KEYWORD
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Culture, Somatization, Cultural psychiarty, Psychopathology
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