Somatization and Psychosomatic Symptoms

1. Specific Psychosomatic Disorders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy: Mechanism and Clinical Aspects

      • Jun-Won Lee, Byung-il William Choi

      Pages 191-206

   3. Poststroke Depression: Mechanisms and Management

      • Kyung Bong Koh

      Pages 207-223

   4. Cancer in a Psychosomatic Perspective

      • Adriaan Visser

      Pages 225-238

   5. Psychosocial Aspects of Breast Cancer: Focus on Interventions

      • Kyung Bong Koh

      Pages 239-257

2. Specific Therapeutic Interventions and Biological Effects of Interventions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259

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   2. Motivational Interviewing in Psychosomatic Medicine

      • Sung Hee Cho

      Pages 261-272

   3. Wisdom and Wisdom Psychotherapy in Coping with Stress

      • Michael Linden

      Pages 273-281

   4. Current Advances in the Psychopharmacology of Psychosomatic Medicine

      • Amarendra N. Singh

      Pages 283-298

   5. Emotion, Interventions, and Immunity

      • Kyung Bong Koh

      Pages 299-315

3. Back Matter

   Pages 317-323

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This book, with contributions emanating from the 21st World Congress of Psychosomatic Medicine held in Seoul in August 2011, presents the latest evidence-based information about the mechanisms, assessment, and management of psychosomatic disorders from a biopsychosociocultural perspective. Somatization is a process characterized by excessive or inappropriate focus on physical symptoms that are medically unexplained. It is highly prevalent in primary care medicine, as somatoform (psychosomatic) disorders tend to be chronic and can cause significant personal suffering and social problems as well as financial burden.​  ​

• chronic pain
• medically unexplained illness
• psychosomatic medicine
• psychosomatic symptoms
• somatization
• somatoform disorders
• rehabilitation psychology

From the reviews:

“This comprehensive, well-organized book covers a broad range of topics that may be used to develop an effective biopsychosocial approach to patient-centered care. … Clinicians in any area of medicine would gain insight from reading this book because of the ubiquitous presence of somatic symptoms. Particularly, primary care providers and mental health care clinicians would benefit from the comprehensive nature of this book especially in caring for their difficult to treat patients.” (Sheila Lahijani, Doody’s Book Reviews, January, 2014)

• College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

  Kyung Bong Koh

Kyung Bong Koh, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He is the author of Stress and Psychosomatic Medicine and has contributed chapters to several textbooks. His many published articles concentrate primarily on psychosomatic medicine, psychoneuroimmunology, somatization, and stress. He has developed a number of psychological instruments, including the Stress Response Inventory. He has received three academic awards for his distinguished research on the relationship between anger and somatization, immunology in anxiety disorders, and neural activity in panic disorder and somatoform disorder from the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association. He played a leading role in founding and also served as president of the Korean Society of Psychosomatic Medicine. He worked as chair of the Scientific Committee of the Society and was the first editor-in-chief of the Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine. In addition, he served as chairperson of the organizing committee of the international academic meetings, such as the 13th Asian College of Psychosomatic Medicine and the 21st World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine held in Seoul, Korea. He is a member of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine and on the editorial board of Biopsychosocial Medicine.

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