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The Differential Diagnosis of Somatoform Disorders

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Somatoform Disorders

Part of the book series: Keio University Symposia for Life Science and Medicine ((KEIO,volume 3))

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Somatoform disorders lie on the boundary between medicine and psychiatry and have been relatively ignored by both. Though quite common, these disorders have received little systematic research. Misdiagnosing these disorders results in morbidity, expense, and the possibility of missing more treatable medical or psychiatric diagnoses. The differential diagnosis of somatoform disorders is a difficult but important task that we will discuss in some detail.

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  1. American Psychiatric Association (1994) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th edn. American Psychiatric Association, Washington

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke South Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Room 4584, Box 3950, Durham, NC, 27710, USA

    Allen Frances

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke South Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Room 3547, Box 3018, Durham, NC, 27710, USA

    Brandon Vance

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  1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, 160-8582, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Yutaka Ono M.D. (Assistant Professor) & Masahiro Asai M.D. (Professor and Chairman) (Assistant Professor) &  (Professor and Chairman)

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, Medical Research Foundation Building, Royal Perth Hospital, 50 Murray Street, WA, 6000, Perth, Australia

    Aleksandar Janca M.D. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, 1201, Geneva, Switzerland

    Norman Sartorius M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Frances, A., Vance, B. (1999). The Differential Diagnosis of Somatoform Disorders. In: Ono, Y., Janca, A., Asai, M., Sartorius, N. (eds) Somatoform Disorders. Keio University Symposia for Life Science and Medicine, vol 3. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68500-5_3

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68500-5_3

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Tokyo

  • Print ISBN: 978-4-431-68502-9

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