The Mind-Body Interface in Somatization: When Symptom Becomes Disease represents a
unique contribution to the clinician's tool chest for diagnosing and treating psychosomatic …

Somatization is among the most puzzling phenomena that health care workers encounter. In
a somatization disorder, the patient describes and experiences multiple physical symptoms …

In this article the authors present their model of treatment for somatization disorder and
related syndromes. It begins with a brief history of somatization followed by a discussion of …

Reviews the book, Treating somatization: A cognitive-behavioral approach by Robert L.
Woolfolk and Lesley A. Allen (see record 2006-21626-000). One of the great challenges and …

Somatization disorder is the most severe and refractory of the somatoform disorders. In this
article, we provide an overview of somatization disorder, reviewing both the experimental …

CME Educational Objectives 1. Understand the conceptual development of somatization
disorder. 2. Differentiate between “somatization” as a psychological process from …

Somatization is a phenomenon that poses a tremendous challenge for patients and
physicians alike. No health problem raises more confusion, anxiety, frustration and …

This content analysis of prior research examines somatization disorder and how the disorder
affects the patient, the patient's family, and the medical system as a whole. The study …

The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment,(AMA Guides), Fourth Edition,
notes that individuals may consciously exaggerate the symptoms of a disorder in the clinical …

Data regarding the treatment of somatoform disorders suggest that the gains associated with
current psychopharmacologic or psychotherapeutic treatments are modest at best. There …