Medically unexplained symptoms: a new model

Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 43-47

  Brown, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cognitive behavioural therapy; consciousness; conversion disorder; medically unexplained symptoms; psychological medicine; somatization; somatoform disorder

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTION; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPERAMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 33845364512     PISSN: 14761793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1383/psyt.2006.5.2.43     Document Type: Article

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