Why do doctors dislike treating people with somatoform disorder?

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 134-138

  Pridmore, Saxby ^a,b   Skerritt, Paul ^b   Ahmadi, Jamshid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Shiraz Univ of Medical Sciences ^*  (Australia)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Doctors attitudes; Somatoform disorders; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIOLOGY; SOMATIZATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECEPTION; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALINGERING; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SICK ROLE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 4043053775     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1039-8562.2004.02085.x     Document Type: Article

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