Definition of psychosomatic medicine and the applicability of DSM-IV-TR to outpatients visiting a japanese psychosomatic clinic

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 120-121

  Nakao, Mutsuhiro ^a   Takeuchi, Takeaki ^a   Fricchione, Gregory ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DSM-IV-TR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; AGORAPHOBIA; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; CONSTIPATION; CONVERSION DISORDER; DEMENTIA; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; DYSTHYMIA; EATING DISORDER; FATIGUE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INSOMNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOGENIC PAIN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PHOBIA; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS;

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE;

EID: 84892682951     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000354182     Document Type: Letter

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