躯体化:苦痛表达的文化习惯用语

躯体化是个体以躯体生理症状来应对心理苦痛和情绪问题,是一种文化背景下苦痛表达的习惯用语。躯体化的理论理解主要从医学人类学、精神病学以及心理学角度。跨文化心理学研究发现,在一些文化领域里存在着混合了躯体症状及情绪症状的躯体化表现,中国的躯体化研究主要从情感表达方式、身心观、社会污名等角度来解释。在此意义上,躯体化具有社会适应功能,有助于作出完整的临床诊断评估与治疗,发展本土心理治疗。

Somatization:Culture Idiom of Distress Expression

Somatization is interpreted as that the individual expresses mental distress and emotional problems through biological symptom,and it can be seen as an idiom of distress expression in a culture context.Theoretical understanding of somatization results from such theories as medical anthropology,psychiatry and psychology.The findings in cross-cultural psychology study show that in some cultures there is somatization performance with both somatic symptoms and emotional symptoms.In China,the research mainly foc...