Introduction to the special issue on medically unexplained symptoms: Background and future directions

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 769-780

  Brown, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EDITORIAL; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ATTENTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; HUMANS; PAIN; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548621748     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2007.07.003     Document Type: Editorial

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