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Somatoform and dissociative disorders: assessment and treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Gill  and
Christopher Bass
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The category ‘somatoform disorders' was introduced comparatively recently in DSM–III and thereafter in ICD–10: it is the umbrella term currently favoured to cover a heterogeneous group of interrelated and overlapping syndromes, which have been given many names over the years. All these syndromes have in common the process of somatisation: that is, the presence of physical symptoms unexplained by physical disease, with variable degrees of distress and loss of function, about which the patient consults doctors.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 9 - 16
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1997 

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