Introducing a psychological agenda for understanding somatic symptoms - An area of conflict for clinicians in relation to patients in a multicultural community

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 386-405

  Bäärnhielm, Sofie ^a,c   Ekblad, Solvig ^b,c  

^a ST GÖRAN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Explanatory models; Illness meaning; Somatization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

COMMUNICATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 48349144489     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-008-9100-8     Document Type: Article

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