Revising the classification of somatoform disorders: Key questions and preliminary recommendations

Psychosomatics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 277-285

  Kroenke, Kurt ^a   Sharpe, Michael ^b   Sykes, Richard ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; CHECKLIST; CONVERSION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; NOMENCLATURE; PAIN; REVIEW; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SOMATOFORM DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNDIFFERENTIATED SOMATOFORM DIORDER;

EID: 34347207262     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.48.4.277     Document Type: Review

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