The XII Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Symposium, Espoo, Finland, 28-29 September, 1995: Somatization and fashionable diagnoses: Illness as a way of life

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1997, Pages 7-16

  Ford, Charles V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Coping; Depression; Environment; Hysteria; Somatization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DYSAUTONOMIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOM; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYSTERIA; INCIDENCE; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0031307655     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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