Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture Something. Nothing. Everything Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities Series
Coordonnateur : Farkas Carol-Ann
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.
Introduction. The Psychosomatic as Nothing, Something, and Everything 1. Psychosomatic Patients and Providers: at the Mercy of a Medical System 2. Narrative Medicine and Fibromyalgia 3. Medically Unexplained Symptoms and the Ethics of Diagnosis: 4. Feeding Your Feelings: Emotional Eating in Mid-Twentieth Century America 5. Impossible Illnesses: Decolonizing Psychosomatic Medicine 6. Narrative Coherence and Medical Explanations of Psychosomatic Pain 7. Medicalstudentitis as a Rite of Passage in Popular Literature 8. Women with Long-Term Exhaustion in Fictional Literature 9. The Brute Within: 10. Poor Things
Carol-Ann Farkas is Associate Professor of English in the School of Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS), Boston, USA.
Date de parution : 09-2021
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Thèmes de Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture :
Mots-clés :
Tracee's Claim; medical humanities; Critical Parent Ego State; psychosomatic in literature; Mosby's Medical Dictionary; psychosomatic in medicine; Free Child Ego State; Caryn Kseniya Rubanovich; Ego State; Maria Giulia Marini; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; De Daniele Nardo; Psychosomatic Illness; Paola Chesi; Narrative Medicine; Luigi Reale; Somatic Symptom Disorder; Louise Stone; Emotional Eating; Claire Hooker; Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Jessica Parr; Biomedical Model; Amba J; Sepie; Psychosomatic Pain; Seamus L; Barker; Parallel Charts; G; Lorimer Moseley; Child Ego State; Maria Tutorskaya; Explanatory Coherence; Olaug S; Lian; Adult Ego State; Catherine Robson; Postwar USA; Hilde Bondevik; Yellow Wallpaper; Camelia Raghinaru; MSS; Hannah Tweed; Cultural Disability Studies; Pain Disorder; Weight Loss Groups; Emma Bovary; Somatic Metaphors