Medical unexplained physical symptoms

Psychiatric Annals

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 298-305

  Neimark, Geoffrey ^a   Caroff, Stanley N ^a,b   Stinnett, James L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVERSION DISORDER; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MALINGERING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOGENESIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SOMATIC DELUSION; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 17444409621     PISSN: 00485713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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