Histories of childhood trauma in adult hypochondriacal patients
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 March 1994
Arthur J. Barsky, C Wool, Maria C. Barnett, Paul D. Cleary
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Hypochondriacal adults recall more childhood trauma than do nonhypochondRIacal patients, even after sociodemographic differences are controlled for, and they also recall more Childhood illness, although they are not currently more medically sick.
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Hypochondriacal adults recall more childhood trauma than do nonhypochondriacal patients, even after sociodemographic differences are controlled for. They also recall more childhood illness, although they are not currently more medically sick.
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