New environmental illnesses: What are their characteristics?

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 231-234

  Henningsen, Peter ^a,c   Priebe, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; PSYCHOSOMATICS; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; SKIN IRRITATION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS;

EID: 0041885256     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071893     Document Type: Editorial

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