There is often difficulty differentiating between psychosomatic, somatopsychic, multisystem
illness, and different degrees of medical uncertainty. Uncommon, complex, and multisystem …

The biopsychosocial model outlined in Engel's classic Science paper four decades ago
emerged from dissatisfaction with the biomedical model of illness, which remains the …

Introduction Numerous psychological factors are believed to play a pivotal role in the
development and maintenance of persistent somatic symptoms (PSS) in all fields of …

Background Many patients consult their GP because they experience bodily symptoms. In a
substantial proportion of cases, the clinical picture does not meet the existing diagnostic …

Prevalence of functional somatic syndromes (FSS) in the general population varies with
observed overlap between syndromes. However, studies including a range of FSS are …

Functional somatic syndromes (FSS) include fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS),
and others. In FSS patients, merely viewing negative affective pictures can elicit increased …

Introduction: Persistent medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are a major burden for
health care. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is efficacious for patients with MUS, with …

The Danish study of Functional Disorders (DanFunD) cohort was initiated to outline the
epidemiology of functional somatic syndromes (FSS) and is the first larger coordinated …

We report on Phase 1 efforts of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)
measurement subgroup tasked with developing provisional scales for the somatoform …

This study compared recently divorced Dane's perceived stress scores with normative data
of both (1) general and (2) divorced/separated populations, and investigated the predictive …