Pain in somatoform disorders: Is somatoform pain disorder a valid diagnosis?

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 103-108

  Birket Smith, Morten ^a   Mortensen, E L ^b  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Pain; Personality; Somatization; Somatoform

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSIS; PAIN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SOMATIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0036321394     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0447.2002.02219.x     Document Type: Article

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