Health anxiety and hypochondriasis: Description and treatment issues highlighted through a case illustration

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 122-140

  Hart, John ^a   Björgvinsson, Thröstur ^b,c  

^a MENNINGER CLINIC   (United States)

^b Houston OCD Program   (United States)

^c MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CYBERCHONDRIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH ANXIETY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INTERNET; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; DELUSIONS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY THERAPY; HABITUATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DELUSIONS; FAMILY THERAPY; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953641507     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: 00259284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.2010.74.2.122     Document Type: Review

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