Pain. Chronic digestive symptoms. Poor sleep. Neuropathy. Sensory
disturbances. Fatigue. Panic. Constant illness and discomfort.
Frequent difficulty coping with work, school, relationships.
Despite the common experience of being told that it's all in their
heads, that they're just making themselves sick, individuals with
these symptoms are experiencing a very real, sometimes
debilitating, illness phenomenon. But what is it? Physical or
mental illness? Political or social identity? Cultural, narrative,
or discursive construction? When something goes awry at the
intersection of mind and body - the psychosomatic - what is
happening? Widely recognized, yet difficult to classify, diagnose,
treat, and explain, psychosomatic disorders are heavily
stigmatized, and the associated syndromes have become the site of
controversy and antipathy in the provider-patient relationship. In
popular culture, terms such as medically unexplained symptoms,
hysteria, neurasthenia, hypochondria, functional illness, and
malingering are misunderstood, unknown, or rejected outright.
Meanwhile, perspectives from cultural and textual studies focus on
the psychosomatic as a metaphor in art, literature, and popular
media, where disruptions of the body and mind are regularly made to
stand in for individual alienation and cultural malaise. Bringing
together multiple perspectives, this challenging volume tackles
causes, and innovative, humanistic solutions, to conflicts in the
provider-patient relationship; uses the psychosomatic as a lens for
theorizing the self in culture; and examines the metaphorical
potential of the psychosomatic in fictional narrative. Providing a
unique assemblage of interdisciplinary, international approaches to
understanding the problem of the psychosomatic in both expert and
lay discourses, this pioneering edited collection is aimed at
students and researchers of health, popular culture, and the health
care humanities.
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