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This paper will address the following issues pertinent to understanding the expression of somatic symptoms in different cultures:
(i) clinical approaches to interpreting patients' somatic complaints;
(ii) linguistic variation in available terms and phrases used by lay people to describe somatic symptoms; and
(iii) types of somatic complaints observed in patients.
Cross-cultural patterns and variation in these three domains will be described on the basis of reports in the literature and data collected in the WHO International Study of Somatoform Disorders.
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Bennett, L., Isaac, M. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Somatoform Disorders. Neuropsychopharmacol 11, 257 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.npp.1380112
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.npp.1380112