Principles of psychosomatic assessment

Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-18

  Fava, Giovanni A ^a,c   Sonino, Nicoletta ^b,c   Wise, Thomas N ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d Inova Health Systems   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOSTASIS; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; IRRITABLE COLON; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PERSONALITY TEST; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; REVIEW;

ADULT; ALLOSTASIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS;

EID: 84870003369     PISSN: 00653268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000329997-18     Document Type: Article

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