Abridged Somatization
Psychosomatic MedicinePublished 1 January 1998
Javier I. Escobar, Howard Waitzkin, Roxane Cohen Silver, Michael A. Gara, Alison Holman
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Abridged Somatization is a frequent syndrome in primary care that is strongly associated with psychopathology and physical disability and a new series of abridged somatization subtypes that may effectively separate among various psychopathologies are yielded.
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Abridged Somatization is a frequent syndrome in primary care that is strongly associated with psychopathology and physical disability. Our research also yielded a new series of abridged somatization subtypes (eg, "discrete" vs. "comorbid" and "simple" vs. "polymorphous") that may effectively separate among various psychopathologies, and may become useful tools for future research with somatizing patients.
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