Research Catalog

Title

Treatment of functional somatic symptoms / edited by Richard Mayou, Christopher Bass, and Michael Sharpe.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bass, Christopher M. (Christopher Maurice)
• Mayou, Richard.
• Sharpe, Michael.

Description

xiii, 452 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Somatoform Disorders > therapy
• Somatoform disorders
• Congress

Genre/Form

Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Concepts, theories, and terminology / Michael Sharpe, Richard Mayou and Christopher Bass -- 2. Psychosomatic disorders: historical perspectives / Roy Porter -- 3. Overview of epidemiology, classification, and aetiology / Richard Mayou, Christopher Bass and Michael Sharpe -- 4. An overview of the treatment of functional somatic symptoms / Michael Sharpe, Christopher Bass and Richard Mayou -- 5. The patient with medically unexplained symptoms: making the initial psychiatric contact / Allan House -- 6. Antidepressant treatment of functional somatic symptoms / Wayne Katon and Mark Sullivan -- 7. Cognitive behavioural therapies in the treatment of functional somatic symptoms / Michael Sharpe -- 8. Treatment of functional somatic symptoms: psychodynamic treatment / Elspeth Guthrie -- 9. Treatment of hypochondriasis / Hilary M. C. Warwick -- 10. Treatment of patients with multiple symptoms / G. Richard Smith, Jr. --
• 11. Psychiatric and psychological approaches to the treatment of chronic pain: concepts and individual treatments / Sidney Benjamin and Chris J. Main -- 12. Psychological treatment and the health care system: the chaotic case of back pain. Is there a need for a paradigm shift? / Chris J. Main and Sidney Benjamin -- 13. Dysmorphophobia in plastic surgery and its treatment / Tim E. E. Goodacre and Richard Mayou -- 14. Psychological treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and abdominal pain / Francis Creed -- 15. Psychological aspects of premenstrual syndrome: developing a cognitive approach / Fiona Blake, Dennis Gath and Paul Salkovskis -- 16. Chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia / Simon Wessely and Michael Sharpe -- 17. Chronic pelvic pain / Lesley Glover and Shirley Pearce -- 18. Chest pain and palpitations / Christopher Bass and Richard Mayou -- 19. The management of functional somatic symptoms in children / M. Elena Garralda --
• 20. The treatment of somatic symptoms in the elderly / Jane Pearce and Charles Morris -- 21. Management in primary care / Linda Gask -- 22. The management of patients with functional somatic symptoms in the general hospital / Christopher Bass, Michael Sharpe and Richard Mayou -- 23. Alternative and complementary treatments / Christopher Bass and Richard Mayou.

ISBN

0192624997

LCCN

95000873

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries