Functional Somatic Syndromes
Subtitle: Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521591300
Subjects: Diseases & disorders; Psychiatry; Psychosomatic Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Syndromes; Diseases; Diseases - General; Family & General Practice; Medical / Psychiatry; Psychiatry - General
First sentence: Functional somatic syndromes are physical illnesses without an organic disease explanation and devoid of demonstrable structural lesion or established biochemical change (Lipkin, 1969; Smith, 1991; Sharpe et al., 1995).