Functional Somatic Syndromes
Subtitle: Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521634915
Subjects: Diseases & disorders; Psychiatry; Syndromes; Medical; Medical / Nursing; 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).