Should we deplore the disappearance of hypochondriasis from DSM-5?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 373-374

  Starcevic, Vladan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; DSM-5; DSM-IV; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; ILLNESS ANXIETY DISORDER; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; NOTE; PSYCHOGENIC PAIN; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOMATIC SYMPTOM DISORDER; SOMATIZATION; STIGMA; UNDIFFERENTIATED SOMATOFORM DISORDER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 84898982632     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004867413515058     Document Type: Note

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