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Somatization, hysteria, or incompletely explained symptoms?
I n this month's In Review section, all the contributors—Dr François Mai (1), Dr Laurence Kirmayer and colleagues (2), and I—wrestle with the seemingly intractable and endlessly interesting topic of body–mind relations. In the first review article, Dr Mai lays out the justification for a diagnostic category of somatization disorder. He recognizes that the standard monistic approach that accepts...
متن کاملProvocative discography in low back pain patients with or without somatization disorder: a randomized prospective evaluation.
Recent reports of provocative discography not only instill confusion, but also create numerous questions about its value in evaluating low back pain. It was reported that provocative discography produced pain in patients who were not suffering with low back pain but suffering with somatization disorder and depression. This study was designed to evaluate 50 randomly assigned patients, with 25 pa...
متن کاملSomatization and conversion disorder.
Somatization is the psychological mechanism whereby psychological distress is expressed in the form of physical symptoms. The psychological distress in somatization is most commonly caused by a mood disorder that threatens mental stability. Conversion disorder occurs when the somatic presentation involves any aspect of the central nervous system over which voluntary control is exercised. Conver...
متن کاملSomatization disorder: a practical review.
OBJECTIVE This paper reviews the present state of knowledge on the etiology, prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment of somatization disorder (SD). METHOD A comprehensive review of the literature on SD is described under the above headings. RESULTS SD is a common condition that is not well managed by many physicians. Patients with SD get caught between the cracks of the health care system, wit...
متن کاملConversion disorder: the modern hysteria
All doctors have encountered patients whose symptoms they cannot explain. These individuals frequently provoke despair and disillusionment. Many doctors make a link between inexplicable physical symptoms and assumed psychiatric ill ness. An array of adjectives in medicine apply to symptoms without established organic basis – ‘supratentorial’, ‘psychosomatic’, ‘functional’ – and these are somet...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pain Research and Management
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1203-6765
DOI: 10.1155/2004/605328