Somatoform Disorders

by Maj, Mario; Akiskal, Hagop S.; Mezzich, Juan; Okasha, Ahmed

• ISBN13: 9780470016121
• ISBN10: 0470016124
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-14
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Mario Maj, Department of Psychiatry, Clinica Psichiatrica, Primo Policlinico Universitario, Naples, Italy. Is also president of the Association of European Psychiatrists.

Hagop S. Akiskal, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, professor of Psychiatry and Director of International Mood Center.

Juan E. Mezzich, International Center for Mental Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYU,New York NY

Ahmed Okasha, Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, Director of WHO Collaborating Center

All are previous editors of WPA Series

Table of Contents

List of Review Contributors	xiii
Preface	xv
CHAPTER 1 SOMATIZATION AND CONVERSION DISORDERS	1	(66)
Somatization and Conversion Disorders: A Review	1	(22)
Harold Merskey and François Mai
COMMENTARIES
1.1 From Hysteria to Somatization	23	(3)
Francis Creed
1.2 Somatoform and Conversion Disorders or Somatic Presentations of Mental Disorders?	26	(3)
Javier I. Escobar
1.3 Are Somatoform Disorders a Distinct Category?	29	(2)
Gregory E. Simon
1.4 Somatoform Disorders: Deconstructing a Diagnosis	31	(3)
Oye Gureje
1.5 The Psychobiology of Somatization and Conversion Disorders	34	(4)
C. Robert Cloninger and Mehmet Dokucu
1.6 Patient or Process?	38	(2)
Linda Gask
1.7 Reading the Body?	40	(2)
Leslie Swartz
1.8 Somatization and Conversion Disorders: A Forgotten Public Health Agenda?	42	(2)
Shekhar Saxena
1.9 A Cognitive Account on Conversion and Somatization Disorders	44	(3)
Karin Roelofs
1.10 Labelling the Unfathomable	47	(3)
Bart Sheehan
1.11 Somatization and Conversion: An Ongoing Controversy	50	(2)
Carsten Spitzer and Hans Jörgen Grabe
1.12 The Mind–Body Dualism and Conversion Disorders	52	(3)
Carlo Faravelli and Massimo Lai
1.13 Concepts of Medically Unexplained Symptoms in Relation to Mind-Body Dualism	55	(2)
Athula Sumathipala
1.14 A Challenge for Both Clinicians and Researchers	57	(2)
Antonio Lobo
1.15 Somatization Disorders in the African Context	59	(3)
Frank G. Njenga, Anna N. Nguithi and Rachel Kang'ethe
1.16 Somatization and Conversion Disorders: An Arab Perspective	62	(3)
Tarek A. Okasha
1.17 Much Theory, but Little Agreement	65	(2)
Alberto Perales and Héctor Chue
CHAPTER 2 PAIN DISORDER	67	(62)
Pain Disorder: A Review	67	(26)
Steven A. King
COMMENTARIES
2.1 The Major Paradigm Shift from the Biomedical Reductionist to the Biopsychosocial Approach to the Assessment and Treatment of Pain	93	(3)
Robert J. Gatchel
2.2 DSM and Pain: When (if Ever) Is Pain Truly a Psychiatric Disorder?	96	(2)
Robert Boland
2.3 Pain Disorder or Just Pain: Can We Escape Dualism?	98	(3)
Robert G. Large and Tipu Aamir
2.4 The Mind–Body Dichotomy in the Modern World	101	(1)
Hans Jörgen Grabe and Carsten Spitzer
2.5 Chronic Pain: Towards a Biopsychosocial Perspective	102	(3)
Michael Bach and Martin Aigner
2.6 Pain Disorder: Where's the Utility?	105	(2)
Lance M. McCracken
2.7 Patients Must Be at the Centre of Pain Management	107	(3)
Joanna M. Zakrzewska
2.8 Chronic Pain: the Importance of a Comprehensive History	110	(2)
Gerald M. Aronoff
2.9 Psychological and Physiological Factors in Pain Disorder	112	(2)
Morten Birket-Smith
2.10 Does the Somatoform Disorder Approach Broaden Our Perspective on Pain?	114	(3)
Wolfgang Hiller and Paul Nilges
2.11 Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain: Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Aspects	117	(2)
Albert Diefenbacher
2.12 Pain: Suffering, Semantics, and Sensitization	119	(2)
Jeffrey Rome
2.13 Subjectivity and Communitas: Further Considerations on Pain	121	(2)
Etzel Cardeña
2.14 The Relationship Between Pain and Anxiety Disorders	123	(2)
Antonio Bulbena, Carlos Garcia Ribera and Lili Sperry
2.15 Gaps in Evidence Base of Pain Disorders	125	(2)
Santosh K. Chaturvedi
2.16 Pain in General Practice	127	(2)
Manuel Suarez Richards and Gustavo Alfredo Delucchi
CHAPTER 3 HYPOCHONDRIASIS	129	(62)
Hypochondriasis: A Review	129	(32)
Russell Noyes Jr.
COMMENTARIES
3.1 Hypochondriasis: Future Directions in Classification and Etiology Research	161	(3)
Steven Taylor and Gordon J.G. Asmundson
3.2 Making Sense of Hypochondriasis	164	(3)
Jonathan S. Abramowitz
3.3 Hypochondriasis: An Endless Source of Controversies?	167	(3)
Vladan Starcevic
3.4 Hypochondriasis: Defining Boundaries, Exploring Risk Factors and Immunology	170	(2)
Eamonn Ferguson
3.5 Hypochondriasis, Health Anxiety, and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy	172	(2)
Patricia Furer and John R. Walker
3.6 Progress with Hypochondriasis	174	(3)
Theo K. Bouman
3.7 The Clinical Spectrum of Hypochondriacal Fears and Beliefs	177	(2)
Giovanni A. Fava and Stefania Fabbri
3.8 A Nosological Nightmare	179	(2)
Geoffrey G. Lloyd
3.9 Hypochondriacal Syndromes: Where Did They Go?	181	(2)
Driss Moussaoui
3.10 Dimensional versus Categorical Approach to Obsessions, Delusions, and Hypochondriasis	183	(2)
Joseph Zohar
3.11 The Nosographic Complexity of Hypochondriasis and the Ambiguity of the Body	185	(2)
Héctor Pérez-Rincón
3.12 Hypochondriasis: Is There a Promising Treatment?	187	(4)
Tewfik K. Daradkeh
CHAPTER 4 BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER	191	(62)
Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Review	191	(31)
Giulio Perugi and Franco Frare
COMMENTARIES
4.1 The Complexity of Body Dysmorphic Disorder	222	(2)
Vilma Gabbay and Rachel G. Klein
4.2 Preoccupation with Appearance: Limitations of Our Understanding and Treatment	224	(2)
Jon E. Grant
4.3 Translational and Evolutionary Models of Body Dysmorphic Disorder	226	(2)
Dan J. Stein
4.4 Our Evolving Understanding of Body Dysmorphic Disorder	228	(3)
Nancy J. Keuthen and Antje Bohne
4.5 Is Body Dysmorphic Disorder a Culturally Determined Expression of a Body Image Disorder?	231	(2)
David H. Gleaves and Suman Ambwani
4.6 Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Awareness Needed	233	(2)
Don E. Jefferys
4.7 Recent Findings in Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Future Directions	235	(2)
Sabine Wilhelm and Ulrike Buhlmann
4.8 Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Some Issues Concerning Classification and Treatment	237	(3)
Fugen Neziroglu
4.9 Body Dysmorphic Disorder: The Antithesis of Narcissus	240	(1)
Andrew A. Nierenberg
4.10 Playing the Devil's Advocate: Is the Concept of Delusional Disorder, Somatic Type, Condemned to Extinction?	241	(3)
Leonardo F. Fontenelle, Mauro V. Mendlowicz and Marcio Versiani
4.11 Advancing the Understanding of Body Dysmorphic Disorder	244	(3)
Eric Hollander and Bernardo Dell'Osso
4.12 Is Body Dysmorphic Disorder More than a DSM Construct?	247	(2)
Michel Botbol
4.13 Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Obsessive—Compulsive Disorder: More Similarities than Differences	249	(4)
Euripedes C. Miguel, Albina R. Torres and Ygor A. Ferrão
CHAPTER 5 CHRONIC FATIGUE AND NEURASTHENIA	253	(72)
Chronic Fatigue and Neurasthenia: A Review	253	(32)
Michael C. Sharpe and Simon Wessely
COMMENTARIES
5.1 From Neurasthenia to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Journey, Not a Destination	285	(2)
Kurt Kroenke
5.2 Tired People Challenge Medicine	287	(4)
Stefan Priebe
5.3 Disease, Sickness or Illness: Which One Is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and/or Neurasthenia?	291	(3)
Bedirhan Ustun
5.4 Constructing Chronic Fatigue: Empiricism, Psychiatry, and Sociocultural Contexts	294	(3)
Renée R. Taylor
5.5 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as a Paradigm for Psychosomatic Medicine	297	(2)
James L. Levenson
5.6 Beyond Fashion	299	(3)
Gordon Parker
5.7 Chronic Fatigue and Disembodied DSM	302	(3)
Sing Lee and Arthur Kleinman
5.8 Problems of Definition, Etiological Approaches and Issues of Management in Chronic Fatiguing Disorders	305	(3)
Anne Farmer and Tom Fowler
5.9 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Time to Concentrate on Fatigue, Not Chronicity	308	(3)
Petros Skapinakis and Venetsanos Mavreas
5.10 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Real Disease, A Real Problem	311	(2)
Jonathan R. Price
5.11 The Specificity of Chronic Fatigue, Neurasthenia, and Somatoform Disorders	313	(3)
Winfried Rief
5.12 Chronic Fatigue in Developing Countries	316	(3)
Vikram Patel
5.13 Functional Somatic Syndromes: Many Names for the Same Thing?	319	(2)
Marco Antonio Brasil, José Carlos Appolinário and Sandra Fortes
5.14 Recent Developments in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	321	(2)
Ruud C.W. Vermeulen
5.15 Does Neurasthenia Really Exist in this Century?	323	(2)
Edmond Chiu
CHAPTER 6 FACTITIOUS PHYSICAL DISORDERS	325	(56)
Factitious Physical Disorders: A Review	325	(27)
Stuart J. Eisendrath and John Q. Young
COMMENTARIES
6.1 Wilful Deception as Illness Behaviour	352	(2)
Christopher Bass
6.2 Factitious Disorders: Diagnosis or Misbehaviour?	354	(4)
Charles V. Ford
6.3 Factitious Disorder and Malingering: The Doctor's Dilemma	358	(2)
Stephen M. Lawrie and Michael C. Sharpe
6.4 Factitious Physical Disorders: The Challenges of Efficient Recognition and Effective Intervention	360	(3)
Lois E. Krahn
6.5 Some Aspects of Factitious Physical Disorders by Proxy	363	(3)
Christopher Cordess
6.6 Inventing Illness: The Deviant Patient	366	(3)
Don R. Lipsitt
6.7 Characterizing Factitious Physical Symptoms	369	(3)
David G. Folks
6.8 Moral Constraints, Regret, and Remorse in Treating Patients with Factitious Disorder	372	(3)
Ovidio A. De León
6.9 Fact, Fiction, Factitious, or Fractious Disorders	375	(1)
Dinesh Bhugra
6.10 Factitious Physical Disorders: A Strategy of Survival for Medically Trained Traumatized Borderlines?	376	(2)
Ramon Florenzano
6.11 Factitious Physical Disorders and Malingering: The Hazardous Link	378	(3)
Saida Douki, Sara Benzineb and Fathy Nacef
Index	381