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Somatoform Disorders: 9 (WPA Series in Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry)
 
 

Somatoform Disorders: 9 (WPA Series in Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry) [Kindle Edition]

Mario Maj , Hagop S. Akiskal , Juan Mezzich , Ahmed Okasha
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"…an informative and comprehensive new book on a group of common but difficult disorders. The book should be read by all clinicians. I highly recommend it." ( Doody′s Health Services )

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Be Guided by the Evidence...

Somatoform disorders are more common than many clinicians realize and are often underdiagnosed and poorly managed.

This practical guide provides a comprehensive overview of all somatoform disorders. It aims to enable the mental health practitioner to properly diagnose and manage the disorders as well as to provide the appropriate advice to colleagues of other medical disciplines.

Somatoform Disorders offers:
* Detailed coverage of the concepts of each disorder: diagnosis, classification, co-morbidities and course and outcome
* An outline of clinical, biological and psychosocial research in the area
* An overview of clinical management and future perspectives
* The unique series format of systematic reviews followed by commentaries

Somatoform Disorders is the ninth volume of the WPA Series "Evidence and Experience in Psychiatry. The book is an unbiased and reliable reference point for all psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses and policy makers.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 4411 KB
  • Print Length: 414 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (21 Oct 2005)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B000QCS6FS
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1.0 out of 5 stars ME Chapter is Anti-Scientific 1 Dec 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
Wesseley and Sharpe, authors of the chapter on ME (CFS), are well known for their anti-science biases that are well on display here. According to Harvard Medical School Chaired Prof. Anthony Komaroff there are over 4,000 articles in peer reviewed medical journals showing frank biological pathology in ME.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Wesseley and Sharpe are junk scientists 1 Dec 2009
By Justin Reilly, esq. - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Wesseley and Sharpe, authors of the chapter on ME (CFS), are well known for their antiscience biases that are well on display here. There are over 4,000 articles in peer reviewed medical journals showing frank biological pathology in ME.
1.0 out of 5 stars Badly misleading section on ME/CFS 3 Jan 2013
By C. Maryhew - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
The presumption that ME/CFS is a somatoform disorder is quite absurd. It is based on the authors of that section starting with the premise that the only important aspect of CFS is subjective fatigue, and sidelining the actually disabling symptoms, including objective signs that have been discovered in biological research.

Because they view only fatigue as being important, other symptoms are presumed to be psychosomatic, and likely result in a lot of false-positives on mood disorder questionnaires which are heavy on questions about doing activities that severely physically disabled patients with -any- disease can no longer do.

Furthermore, the conclusions drawn based on patients who might or might not have ME/CFS, and are only required to have chronic fatigue, often corrupts both biological and psychiatric research performed by Wessely and White. When biological abnormalities are found, they're either explained away as likely results of depression and deconditioning, or waved away as being unimportant based on lack of relationship between those abnormalities and the "fatigue" and psychiatric questionnaires used.
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4.0 out of 5 stars somatoform disorder 25 Feb 2006
By Tamio Onizawa - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Many authorities over the world participated in the discussion.

It is not restricted to the US perspective.
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