- Hardcover: 314 pages
- Publisher: Routledge (22 Mar 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0789012596
- ISBN-13: 978-0789012593
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.7 x 0.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Learn how a patient’s behavior can factor into the prognosis of medically unexplainable illness!
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes examines the link between mental illness and physical syndromes that lack organic disease explanations, including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, premenstrual dysphoria, irritable bowel, and Gulf War illness.
The author has evaluated the best research work of the past 20 years to determine the association between psychopathology and functional illness, the biological gradient between somatic and psychological symptoms, and the manifestations of dysfunctional coping.
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes challenges recent conceptualizations of functional somatic syndromes as brain disorders connected to affective spectrum disorder, serotonin deficiency, cerebral hypoperfusion or abnormal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function and highlights the importance of abnormal illness behavior, sexual victimization, and maladaptive coping for the production and maintenance of these disorders.
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes explores observations on the neurobiology and the personality abnormalities of patients made from structured data collected over a period of several years. It describes modern perceptions of functional somatic syndromes and how they have evolved into a tightly knit family of self-standing syndromes with a common core. The book examines the correlation between the burden of psychopathology and the physical features of these illnesses; reviews advances made in the appraisal of the neuroanatomy, neuropsychology, and neurochemistry of functional syndromes; and focuses on the connection between measurable dimensions of personality, coping, and illness behavior and the prognosis of medically unexplainable illnesses.
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes examines:
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes examines the link between mental illness and physical syndromes that lack organic disease explanations, including chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, premenstrual dysphoria, irritable bowel, and Gulf War illness.
The author has evaluated the best research work of the past 20 years to determine the association between psychopathology and functional illness, the biological gradient between somatic and psychological symptoms, and the manifestations of dysfunctional coping.
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes challenges recent conceptualizations of functional somatic syndromes as brain disorders connected to affective spectrum disorder, serotonin deficiency, cerebral hypoperfusion or abnormal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function and highlights the importance of abnormal illness behavior, sexual victimization, and maladaptive coping for the production and maintenance of these disorders.
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes explores observations on the neurobiology and the personality abnormalities of patients made from structured data collected over a period of several years. It describes modern perceptions of functional somatic syndromes and how they have evolved into a tightly knit family of self-standing syndromes with a common core. The book examines the correlation between the burden of psychopathology and the physical features of these illnesses; reviews advances made in the appraisal of the neuroanatomy, neuropsychology, and neurochemistry of functional syndromes; and focuses on the connection between measurable dimensions of personality, coping, and illness behavior and the prognosis of medically unexplainable illnesses.
The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes examines:
- psychiatric morbidity
- brain perfusion
- post-traumatic stress in Gulf War illness
- the spectrum of mood disorders
- the hypothalamatic-pituitary-adrenal axis
- the sexual victimization of patients
- and much more!
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Functional syndromes characterized by malaise, widespread or localized pain, cognitive abnormalities, anxiety, depression, and somatic preoccupation have been identified for more than two centuries. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
DON'T BUY THIS BOOK! - Even if you are a professional.
I have Fibromyalgia and I have and have had NONE of the mental issues described in this book that "apparently" account for why I have it. This book is based on research pre-1994 and talks about those with these illnesses as if they can't even read. It describes people with Fibromyalgia as lazy hypochondriacs and is overall very negative, and only serves to endorse prejudicial views about those with these syndromes.
No one would wish to have any of these illnesses and like me I am sure everyone who has experienced these illnesses would happily go just one day without pain or fatigue - but this book makes out that we like it. It is like a paper version of the worse doctor you have ever met.
I can't vouch for any of the other illnesses but I would suggest anyone wanting to know more about Fibro look for the Dr Don L. Goldenberg book "Fibromyalgia: Understanding and Getting Relief from Pain That Won't Go Away". It is a wonderfully positive book and gives real advice on how to cope and what to do. It will also help professionals' find the true mindset of those with these illnesses. As a pointer, those diagnosed with depression along with these syndromes usually occur because doctors ignore them repeatedly and they become so frustrated with no one helping them that they get caught in a vicious cycle. This book will only make things worse.
I have Fibromyalgia and I have and have had NONE of the mental issues described in this book that "apparently" account for why I have it. This book is based on research pre-1994 and talks about those with these illnesses as if they can't even read. It describes people with Fibromyalgia as lazy hypochondriacs and is overall very negative, and only serves to endorse prejudicial views about those with these syndromes.
No one would wish to have any of these illnesses and like me I am sure everyone who has experienced these illnesses would happily go just one day without pain or fatigue - but this book makes out that we like it. It is like a paper version of the worse doctor you have ever met.
I can't vouch for any of the other illnesses but I would suggest anyone wanting to know more about Fibro look for the Dr Don L. Goldenberg book "Fibromyalgia: Understanding and Getting Relief from Pain That Won't Go Away". It is a wonderfully positive book and gives real advice on how to cope and what to do. It will also help professionals' find the true mindset of those with these illnesses. As a pointer, those diagnosed with depression along with these syndromes usually occur because doctors ignore them repeatedly and they become so frustrated with no one helping them that they get caught in a vicious cycle. This book will only make things worse.
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27 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Dusty history. Achooo.
4 Mar 2005
Format:Paperback
Dusty history. Achooo.
Nothing new here, just the recitation of the centuries-old mantra that any illness that medical doctors don't know everything about is automatically a psychiatric disorder.
Older theories of "bad" air and "evil spirits" as causative agents of disease have given way to more modern theories of "mass hysteria" spread by the media and Internet.
Parkinson's, diabetes, MS, ulcers and polio have all been declared mental disorders at some point. Children with polio were once beaten for their "behavioral" refusal to move.
As a woman, I found reading Dr. Manu's book akin to reading a first-hand account of childbirth written by a man who has never given birth in his life. Observations: yes. Speculative conclusions: oh yes. Irrelevant "facts": yes.
As a fairytale icon to "can you believe they used to think that," Manu's book is a gem worthy of a smile or two.
Readers expecting current biological research will be disappointed.
Like many people who do not wish to have their theories disproven, Dr. Manu completely ignores the decades-old World Health Organization listing of chronic fatigue syndrome under neurological disorders (ICD 10 G93.3) and fibromyalgia under rheumatological soft tissue disorders - M79.0. Good grief, even health insurance giant Blue Cross/Blue Shield lists them as organic disorders.
As has been the case throughout medical history, the advancement of imperfect knowledge lies in exacting scientific study not the repetition of myth. Doctors don't know what causes cancer, multiple sclerosis, or migraines, but the lack of knowledge doesn't mean "imaginary." The rationale that nothing further can be learned about organic illness is laughable in the current age of scientific advancements. Medical doctors can and should do better than trying to talk patients out of organic illness.
Recommended: Living Well with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia by Mary J. Shomon or Ric Carlson's recent release We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & the Politics of Disease.
Nothing new here, just the recitation of the centuries-old mantra that any illness that medical doctors don't know everything about is automatically a psychiatric disorder.
Older theories of "bad" air and "evil spirits" as causative agents of disease have given way to more modern theories of "mass hysteria" spread by the media and Internet.
Parkinson's, diabetes, MS, ulcers and polio have all been declared mental disorders at some point. Children with polio were once beaten for their "behavioral" refusal to move.
As a woman, I found reading Dr. Manu's book akin to reading a first-hand account of childbirth written by a man who has never given birth in his life. Observations: yes. Speculative conclusions: oh yes. Irrelevant "facts": yes.
As a fairytale icon to "can you believe they used to think that," Manu's book is a gem worthy of a smile or two.
Readers expecting current biological research will be disappointed.
Like many people who do not wish to have their theories disproven, Dr. Manu completely ignores the decades-old World Health Organization listing of chronic fatigue syndrome under neurological disorders (ICD 10 G93.3) and fibromyalgia under rheumatological soft tissue disorders - M79.0. Good grief, even health insurance giant Blue Cross/Blue Shield lists them as organic disorders.
As has been the case throughout medical history, the advancement of imperfect knowledge lies in exacting scientific study not the repetition of myth. Doctors don't know what causes cancer, multiple sclerosis, or migraines, but the lack of knowledge doesn't mean "imaginary." The rationale that nothing further can be learned about organic illness is laughable in the current age of scientific advancements. Medical doctors can and should do better than trying to talk patients out of organic illness.
Recommended: Living Well with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia by Mary J. Shomon or Ric Carlson's recent release We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & the Politics of Disease.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Entertaining Fiction
16 Nov 2009
Format:Hardcover
But not as good as his other book: The Earth is Flat: Recent Scientific Advances Disproving the Hysterical Round World Theory.
2 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Good Read
26 Jan 2006
Format:Paperback
This book provides and excellent explanation of illnesses that are difficult to define as well as classify. A must read for anyone interested in psychosomatics
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