Depression in Cultural Context: “Chinese Somatization,” Revisited

The Chinese Cultural Revolution Revisited

This paper intends to construct a framework of understanding the Cultural Revolution and the complexities of such an event on the basis of historically novel forms of political, social and ideological relations. It brings the Cultural Revolution back in a good light so as to show its immense, autonomous historical importance as well as its continuing relevance. It studies and establishes the re...

Depression, somatization, and the "new cross-cultural psychiatry". A comment.

Contrary to Smger’s contentlon that the features of depressive dtsorders do not exhlblt slgmficant cross-cultural differences the author uses material from field research m Tatwan and data from recent anthropologlcal and chrucal mvesttgatlons to support the opposite view that such differences extst and are a function of the cultural shaping of normattve and devtant behavior Somatlzatlon amongst...

Chinese Somatization & Symptom Interpretation 1 INFLUENCE OF A COMMON RELIGIOUS FAITH ON SOMATIZATION AND SYMPTOM INTERPRETATION IN A CROSS-CULTURAL ROMAN CATHOLIC SAMPLE

Exploring the Impacts of Cultural Globalization on Cultural Awareness/ Values and English Writing in Chinese Context

This article explores the impacts of cultural globalization on the cultural awareness and orientation of cultural values among educated Chinese young people and on English writing of Chinese college students. It demonstrates that, while making fast achievements in its economy in the process of globalization, China has also gone through great changes in its national culture in the areas of tradi...

Chronic pain severity and depression/somatization levels in TMD patients.

PURPOSE The Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) axis II for psychosocial assessment was adopted to grade chronic pain severity and to correlate that severity with levels of depression and somatization in a population of chronic TMD patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS A series of 111 consecutive patients who sought treatment for TMD symptoms lasting longer than 6...