Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Somatoform and Factitious Disorders

  • Chapter
Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology

Abstract

Although somatoform and factitious disorders have long been recognized throughout the years, in one form or another, these disorders have represented a category of psychiatric disturbances that is highly misunderstood. This is not surprising, since these disorders have received little empirical evaluation despite much attention and discussion in clinical settings.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Abbey, S. E., & Lipowski, Z. J. (1987). Comprehensive management of persistent somatization: An innovative in-patient program. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 48, 110–115.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Adler, R., Gervasi, A., & Holzer, B. (1978). Perceptual style and pain tolerance. II: The influence of an anxiolytic agent. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 17, 381–387.

    Google Scholar 

  • Adler, R., & Lomazzi, E (1973). Perceptual style and pain tolerance. I: The influence of certain psychological factors. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 17, 369–379.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Aduan, R. P, Fauci, A. S., Dale, D. C., Herzberg, M. D., & Wolff, S. M. (1979). Factitious fever and self-induced infection: A report of 32 cases and review of the literature. Annals of Internal Medicine, 90, 230–242.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Alacron, R. (1964). Hypochondriasis and depression in the aged. Gerontology Clinics, 6, 266–277.

    Google Scholar 

  • Alacron, R. D. (1973). Hysteria and hysterical personality: How come one without the other? Psychiatric Quarterly, 47, 258–275.

    Google Scholar 

  • Allodi, E A. (1974). Accident neurosis: Whatever happened to male hysteria? Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal, 19, 291–296.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • American Psychiatric Association. (1952). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Washington, DC: Author.

    Google Scholar 

  • American Psychiatric Association. (1968). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

    Google Scholar 

  • American Psychiatric Association. (1980). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

    Google Scholar 

  • American Psychiatric Association. (1987). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. (3rd ed., rev.). Washington, DC: Author.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andreasen, N. C., & Bardach, J. (1977). Dysmorphophobia: Symptom or disease? American Journal of Psychiatry, 134, 673–676.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Apley, J. (1975). The child with abdominal pains (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.

    Google Scholar 

  • Arkonac, O., & Guze, S. B. (1963). A family study of hysteria. New England Journal of Medicine, 268, 239–242.

    Google Scholar 

  • Asher, R. (1951). Munchausen’s Syndrome. Lancet, 1, 339–341.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy. (1962). Hypochondriasis: USA [Editorial]. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 26, 187–190.

    Google Scholar 

  • Barnert, C. (1971). Conversion reactions and psychophysiologic disorders: A comparative study. Psychiatry in Medicine, 2, 205–220.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Barr, R., & Abernathy, V. (1977). Conversion reaction: Differential diagnosis in the light of biofeedback research. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 164, 287–292.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Barsky, A. J. (1988). The paradox of health. New England Journal of Medicine, 318, 414–418.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Barsky, A. J. (1989). Somatoform disorders. In H. I. Kaplan & B. J. Saddock (Eds.), Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry (5 th ed., pp. 1009–1027). Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.

    Google Scholar 

  • Barsky, A. J., & Klerman, G. L. (1983). Overview: Hypochondriasis, bodily complaints and somatic styles. American Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 273–283.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Barsky, A. J., & Wyshak, G. (1989). Hypochondriasis and related health attitudes. Psychosomatics, 30, 412–420.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Barsky, A. J., Wyshak, G., & Klerman, G. L. (1986). Hypochondriasis: An evaluation of the DSM-III criteria in medical outpatients. Archives of General Psychiatry, 43, 493–500.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Barsky, A. J., Wyshak, G., & Klerman, G. L. (1990). Transient hypochondriasis. Archives of General Psychiatry, 47, 746–752.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bass, C., & Wade, C. (1984). Chest pain with normal coronary arteries: A comparative study of psychiatric and social morbidity. Psychological Medicine, 14, 51–61.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Beecher, H. K. (1956). Relationship of significance of wound to pain experienced. Journal of the American Medical Association, 161, 1609–1613.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Behrman, J., & Levy, R. (1970). Neurophysiological studies on patients with hysterical disturbances of vision. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 14, 187–194.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bendefeldt, E, Miller, L. L., &Ludwig, A. M. (1976). Cognitive performance in conversion hysteria. Archives of Psychiatry, 33, 1250–1254.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bianchi, G. N. (1971). The origins of disease phobia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 5, 241–257.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bianchi, G. N. (1973). Patterns of hypochondriasis: A principal components analysis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 122, 541–548.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bishop, E. R., Jr. (1980). Monosymptomatic hypochondriasis. Psychosomatics, 21, 731–747.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Bishop, E. R., Jr., Mobley, M. C., & Farr, W. E, Jr. (1978). Lateralization of conversion symptoms. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 19, 393–396.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Blazer, D., George, K., Landerman, R., Pennebaker, M., Melville, M. L., Woodbury, M., Manton, K. G., Jordan, K., & Locke, B. (1985). Psychiatric disorders: A rural/urban comparison. Archives of General Psychiatry, 42, 651–656.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bloch, S., & Glue, P. (1988). Psychotherapy and dysmor-phophobia: A case report. British Journal of Psychiatry, 152, 271–274.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bohman, M., Cloninger, C. R., Von Knorring, A. L., & Sig-vardsson, S. (1984). An adoption study of somatoform disorders. III. Cross-fostering analysis and genetic relationship to alcoholism and criminality. Archives of General Psychiatry, 41, 872–878.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Boyd, J. H., Burke, J. D., Jr., Gruenberg, E., Holzer, C. E., , Rae, D. S., George, L. K., Karno, M., Stoltzman, R., McEvoy, L., & Nestadt, G. (1984). Exclusion criteria of DSM-III: A study of co-occurrence of hierarchy-free syndromes. Archives of General Psychiatry, 41, 983–989.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Braddock, L. E. (1982). Dysmorphophobia in adolescence: A case report. British Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 199–201.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Brink, T. L., Janakes, C., & Martinez, N. (1981). Geriatric hypochondriasis: Situational factors. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 29, 37–39.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Brodsky, C. M. (1984). Sociocultural and interpersonal influences on somatization. Psychosomatics, 9, 673–680.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brotman, A. W., & Jenike, M. A. (1984). Monosymptomatic hypochondriasis treated with tricyclic antidepressants. American Journal of Psychiatry, 141, 1608–1609.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Brown, H. N., & Vaillant, G. E. (1981). Hypochondriasis. Archives of Internal Medicine, 141, 723–726.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Carden, N. L., & Schramel, D. J. (1966). Observations of conversion reactions seen in troops involved in the Viet Nam conflict. American Journal of Psychiatry, 123, 21–31.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Carney, M. W. P (1980). Artifactual illness to attract medical attention. British Journal of Psychiatry, 136, 542–547.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Carter, A. B. (1949). The prognosis of certain hysterical symptoms. British Medical Journal, 1, 1076–1079.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Celani, D. (1976). An interpersonal approach to hysteria. American Journal of Psychiatry, 133, 1412–1418.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chodoff, P (1974). The diagnosis of hysteria: An overview. American Journal of Psychiatry, 131, 1073–1078.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Chodoff, P, & Lyons, H. (1958). Hysteria, the hysterical personality and “hysterical” conversion. American Journal of Psychiatry, 114, 734–740.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cloninger, C. R., & Guze, S. B. (1970). Psychiatric illness and female criminality: The role of sociopathy and hysteria in the antisocial woman. American Journal of Psychiatry, 127, 303–311.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cloninger, C. R., Reich, T., Guze, S. B. (1975a). The multifactorial model of disease transmission: II. Set differences in the familial transmission of sociopathy. British Journal of Psychiatry, 127, 11–22.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cloninger, C. R., Reich, T., & Guze, S. B. (1975b). The multifactorial model of disease transmission: in. Familial relationship between sociopathy and hysteria. British Journal of Psychiatry, 127, 23–32.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Cloninger, R., Sigvardsson, S., Von Knorring, A. L., & Bohman, M. (1984). An adoption study of somatoform disorders: II. Identification of two discrete somatoform disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 41, 863–871.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Connolly, E H., & Gibson, M. (1978). Dysmorphophobia: A long-term study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 132, 568–570.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Coryell, N. (1981). Diagnosis-specific mortality: Primary unipolar depression and Briquet’s Syndrome (somatization disorder). Archives of General Psychiatry, 38, 939–942.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Coryell, Q., & Norton, S. G. (1981). Briquet’s Syndrome and primary depression: Comparison of background and outcome. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 22, 249–256.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Costa, P. T., Jr., & McCrae, R. R. (1985). Hypochondriasis, neuroticism and aging: When are somatic complaints unfounded? American Psychologist, 40, 19–28.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Delargy, M. A., Peatfield, R. C., & Burt, A. A. (1986). Successful rehabilitation in conversion paralysis. British Medical Journal, 292, 1730–1731.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • De Leon, J., Bott, A., & Simpson, G. M. (1989). Dysmorphophobia: Body dysmorphic disorder or delusional disorder, somatic subtype? Comprehensive Psychiatry, 30, 457–472.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Deubner, D. C. (1977). An epidemiologic study of migraine and headache in 10–20 year olds. Headache, 17, 173–180.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Dworkin, S. F., Von Korff, M., & LeResche, L. (1990). Multiple pains and psychiatric disturbances: An epidemiological investigation. Archives of General Psychiatry, 47, 239–244.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Edgerton, M. T., Meyer, E., & Jacobson, W. E. (1961). Augmentation mammoplasty: II. Further surgical and psychiatric evaluation. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 27, 279–302.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Edgerton, M. T., Webb, W. L., Jr., Slaughter, R., & Meyer, E. (1964). Surgical results and psychosocial change following rhytidectomy: An evaluation of face-lifting. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 33, 503–521.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Eisendrath, S. J. (1989). Factitious physical disorders: Treatment without confrontation. Psychosomatics, 30, 383–387.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Engel, G. E. (1959). “Psychogenic” pain and the pain-prone patient. American Journal of Medicine, 16, 899–918.

    Google Scholar 

  • Engel, G. E. (1970). Conversion symptoms. In C. M. MacBryde (Ed.), Signs and symptoms: Applied physiology and clinical interpretation (pp. 650–658). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ernst, A. R., Routh, D. K., & Harper, D. C. (1984). Abdominal pain in children and symptoms of somatization disorder. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 9, 77–86.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Escobar, J. I. (1987). Cross-cultural aspects of the somatization trait. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 38, 174–180.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Escobar, J. I., Burnam, M. A., Karno, M., Forsythe, A., & Golding, J. M. (1987). Somatization in the community. Archives of General Psychiatry, 44, 713–718.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Escobar, J. I., Rubio-Stipec, M., Canino, G., & Karno, M. (1989). Somatic symptom index (SSI): A new and abridged somatization construct. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 177, 140–146.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Fabrega, H., Jr., Mezzich, J., Jacob, R., & Ulrich, R. (1988). Somatoform disorder in a psychiatric setting: Systematic comparisons with depression and anxiety disorders. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 176, 431–439.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Finkelstein, B. A. (1963). Dysmorphophobia. Disorders of the Nervous System, 24, 365–370.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fishbain, D. A., Goldberg, M., Khalil, T. M., Asfour, S. S., Abdel-Moty, E., Meagher, B. R., Santana, R., Rosomoff, R. S., & Rosomoff, H. L. (1988). The utility of electromyographic biofeedback in the treatment of conversion paralysis. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 1572–1575.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Fishbain, D. A., Goldberg, M., Rosomoff, R. S., & Rosomoff, H. L. (1988). Munchausen Syndrome presenting with chronic pain: Case report. Pain, 35, 91–94.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Fischer-Homberger, E. (1972). Hypochondriasis of the eighteenth century—neurosis of the present century. Bulletin in the History of Medicine, 46, 391–401.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Flor-Henry, P, Fromm-Auch, D., Tapper, M., & Schopflocher, D. (1981). A neuropsychological study of the stable syndrome of hysteria. Biologic Psychiatry, 16, 601–626.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Folks, D. G., Ford, C. V., & Regan, W. M. (1984). Conversion symptoms in a general hospital. Psychosomatics, 25, 285–295.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ford, C. V. (1986). The somatizing disorders. Psychosomatics, 27, 327–337.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ford, C. V., & Folks, D. G. (1985). Conversion disorder: An overview. Psychosomatics, 26, 371–383.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ford, C. V., & Long, K. D. (1977). Group psychotherapy of somatizing patients. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 28, 294–304.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ford, C. V., & Smith, R. (1987). Somatoform disorders, factitious disorders and disability syndromes. In A. Stoudemire & B. S. Fogel (Eds.), Principles of medical psychiatry (pp. 205–217). New York: Grune & Stratton.

    Google Scholar 

  • Freud, S. (1956). Defense neuro-psychoses. Collected papers. London: Hogarth.

    Google Scholar 

  • Galin, D., Diamond, R., & Braff, D. (1977). Lateralization of conversion symptoms: More frequent on the left. American Journal of Psychiatry, 134, 578–580.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Gatfield, P. D., & Guze, S. B. (1962). Prognosis and differential diagnosis of conversion reactions: A follow-up study. Diseases of the Nervous System, 23, 623–631.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Gillespie, R. O. (1928). Hypochondria: Its definition, nosology and psychopathology. Guy’s Hospital Report, 78, 408–460.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goldberg, D. P., & Bridges, K. (1988). Somatic presentations of psychiatric illness in primary care settings. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 32, 137–144.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Goodyer, I. (1981). Hysterical conversion reactions in childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 22, 179–188.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Gordon, E., Kraiuhin, C., Meares, R., & Howson, A. (1986). Auditory evoked response potentials in somatization disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 20, 237–248.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Gould, R., Miller, B. L., Goldberg, M. A., & Benson, D. F. (1986). The validity of hysterical signs and symptoms. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174, 593–597.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Guze, S. B. (1975). The validity and significance of the clinical diagnosis of hysteria (Briquet’s Syndrome). American Journal of Psychiatry, 132, 138.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Guze, S. B. (1983). Studies in hysteria. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 28, 434–437.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Guze, S. B., Cloninger, C. R., Martin, R. L., & Clayton, P J. (1986). A follow-up and family study of Briquet’s Syndrome. British Journal of Psychiatry, 149, 17–23.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Guze, S. B., & Perley, J. J. (1963). Observation on the natural history of hysteria. American Journal of Psychiatry, 119, 960–965.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Guze, S. B., Tuason, V. B., Gatfield, P. D., Stewart, M. A., & Picken, B. (1962). Psychiatric illness and crime with particular reference to alcoholism: A study of 223 criminals. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 134, 512–521.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Guze, S. B., Wolfgram, E. D., McKinney, J. K., & Cantwell, D. P (1967). Psychiatric illness in the families of convicted criminals: A study of 519 first-degree relatives. Disease of the Nervous System, 28, 651–659.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Guze, S. B., Woodruff, R. A., & Clayton, P. J. (1971a). A study of conversion symptoms in psychiatric outpatients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 128, 643–646.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Guze, S. B., Woodruff, R. A., Jr., & Clayton, P J. (1971b). Hysteria and antisocial behavior: Further evidence of an association. American Journal of Psychiatry, 127, 957–960.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hafeiz, H. (1980). Hysterical conversion: A prognostic study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 136, 548–551.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hall, R. C. W., Stickney, S. K., & Gardner, E. R. (1981). Psychiatric symptoms in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Psychosomatics, 22, 15–24.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Halliday, A. M. (1968). Computing techniques in neurological diagnosis. British Medical Bulletin, 24, 253–259.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hanback, J. W., & Revelle, W. (1978). Arousal and perceptual sensitivity in hypochondriacs. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 87, 523–530.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hardy, G. E. (1982). Body image disturbance in dysmor-phophobia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 141, 181–185.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hardy, G. E., & Cotterill, J. A. (1982). A study of depression and obsessionality in dysmorphophobic and psoriatic patients. British Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 19–22.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hay, G. G. (1970a). Dysmorphophobia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 116, 399–406.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hay, G. G. (1970b). Psychiatric aspects of cosmetic nasal operations. British Journal of Psychiatry, 116, 85–87.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hay, G. G. (1983). Feigned psychosis—a review of the simulation of mental illness. British Journal of Psychiatry, 143, 8–10.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hay, G. G., & Heather, B. B. (1973). Changes in psychometric test results following cosmetic nasal operations. British Journal of Psychiatry, 122, 89–90.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hernandez-Peon, R., Chavez-Ibarra, G., & Aguilar-Figueroa, E. (1963). Somatic evoked potentials in one case of hysterical anaesthesia. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 15, 889–892.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hopkinson, G. (1973). The psychiatric syndrome of infestation. Psychiatric Clinics, 6, 330–345.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Hunter, R. C. A., Lohrenz, J. G., & Schwartzman, A. E. (1964). Nosophobia and hypochondriasis in medical students. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 139, 147–152.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Idzorek, S. (1975). A functional classification of hypochondriasis with specific recommendations for treatment. Southern Medical Journal, 68, 1326–1332.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ireland, R., Sapira, J., & Templeton, B. (1967). Munchausen’s Syndrome. American Journal of Medicine, 43, 579–592.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Jacobson, W. E., Edgerton, M. T., Meyer, E., Canter, A., & Slaughter, R. (1960). Psychiatric evaluation of male patients seeking cosmetic surgery. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 26, 350–371.

    Google Scholar 

  • James, L., Singer, A., Zurynski, Y., Gordon, E., Kraiuhin, C., Harris, A., Howson, A., & Meares, R. (1987). Evoked response potentials and regional cerebral blood flow in somatization disorder. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 47, 190–196.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Jenike, M. A. (1984). A case report of successful treatment of dysmorphophobia with tranylcypromine. American Journal of Psychiatry, 141, 1463–1464.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, C., Shenoy, R. S., & Langer, S. (1981). Relaxation therapy for somatoform disorders. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 32, 423–424.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Jones, M. M. (1980). Conversion reaction: Anachronism or evolutionary form? A review of the neurological, behavioral, and psychoanalytic literature. Psychological Bulletin, 87, 427–441.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kaminsky, M. J., & Slavney, R R. (1983). Hysterical and obsessional features in patients with Briquet’s syndrome (somatization disorder). Psychological Medicine, 13, 111–120.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Katon, W. (1982). Depression: Somatic symptoms and medical disorders in primary care. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 23, 274–287.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Katon, W. (1984). Panic disorder and somatization. American Journal of Medicine, 77, 101–106.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Katon, W., Kleinman, A., & Rosen, G. (1982). Depression and somatization: A review. Part I. American Journal of Medicine, 72, 127–135.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kbton, W., Ries, R. K., & Kleinman, A. (1984a). The prevalence of somatization in primary care. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 25, 208–215.

    Google Scholar 

  • Katon, W., Ries, R. K., & Kleinman, A. (1984b). Part II: A prospective DSM-IH study of 100 conservative somatization patients. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 25, 305–314.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kellner, R. (1982). Psychotherapeutic strategies in hypochondriasis: A clinical study. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 36, 146–157.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kellner, R. (1985). Functional somatic symptoms and hypochondriasis: A survey of empirical studies. Archives of General Psychiatry, 42, 821–833.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kellner, R. (1990). Somatization. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 178, 150–160.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kellner, R., Abbott, P, Winslow, W. W., & Pathak, D. (1987). Fears, beliefs, and attitudes in DSM-III hypochondriasis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175, 20–25.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kendell, R. E. (1972). A new look at hysteria. Medicine, 30, 1780–1783.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kenyon, E E. (1964). Hypochondriasis: A clinical study. British Journal of Psychiatry, 110, 478–488.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kenyon, F. E. (1965). Hypochondriasis: A survey of some historical, clinical and social aspects. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 38, 117–133.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kenyon, E E. (1976). Hypochondriacal states. British Journal of Psychiatry, 129, 1–14.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kimball, C. P., & Blindt, K. (1982). Some thoughts on conversion. Psychosomatics, 23, 647–649.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kirmayer, L. J. (1984). Culture, affect and somatization: Part I. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 21, 159–188.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kirmayer, L. J., Robbins, J. M., & Kapusta, M. A. (1988). Somatization and depression in fibromyalgia syndrome. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 950–954.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kleinman, A. M. (1977). Depression, somatization and the new “cross-cultural psychiatry.” Social Science and Medicine, 11, 3–10.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Kreitman, N., Sainsbury, P, Pearce, K., & Costain, W. R. (1965). Hypochondriasis and depression in out-patients at a general hospital. British Journal of Psychiatry, 3, 607–615.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kriechman, A. M. (1987). Siblings with somatoform disorders in childhood and adolescence. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 26, 226–231.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lacey, J. M., & Birtchnell, S. A. (1984). Body image and its disturbances. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 30, 623–631.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ladee, G. A. (1966). Hypochondriacal syndromes. New York: Elsevier.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lader, M., & Sartorius, N. (1968). Anxiety in patients with hysterical conversion symptoms. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 31, 490–495.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lazare, A. (1981). Current concepts in psychiatry. New England Journal of Medicine, 305, 745–748.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lesse, S. (1968). Hypochondriasis and psychosomatic disorders masking depression. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 21, 607–620.

    Google Scholar 

  • Levy, R., & Behrman, J. (1970). Clinical and laboratory notes: Cortical evoked responses in hysterical hemianaesthesia. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 29, 400–402.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Levy, R., & Mushin, J. (1973). The somatosensory evoked response in patients with hysterical anaesthesia. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 17, 81–84.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lewis, W. C. (1974). Hysteria—the consultant’s dilemma: Twentieth century demonology, pejorative epithet, or useful diagnosis? Archives of General Psychiatry, 30, 145–151.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lewis, W. C., & Berman, M. (1965). Studies of conversion hysteria: Operational study of diagnosis. Archives of General Psychiatry, 13, 275–282.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lilienfeld, S. O., Van Valkenburg, C., Larntz, K., & Akiskal, H. S. (1986). The relationship of histrionic personality disorder to antisocial personality and somatization disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 143, 718–722.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lin, E. H. B., Carter, W. B., & Kleinman, A. M. (1985). An exploration of somatization among Asian refugees and immigrants in primary care. American Journal of Public Health, 75, 1080–1084.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lipowski, Z. J. (1988). Somatization: The concept and its clinical application. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 1358–1368.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Liskow, B., Othmer, E., Penick, E. C., DeSouza, C., & Gabrielli, W. (1986). Is Briquet’s Syndrome a heterogeneous disorder? American Journal of Psychiatry, 143, 626–629.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Livingston, R. (1987). Maternal somatization disorder and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Psychosomatics, 28, 213–217.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Livingston, R., & Martin-Cannici, C. (1985). Multiple somatic complaints and possible somatization disorder in pre-pubertal children. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 24, 603–607.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ljungberg, L. (1957). Hysteria: A clinical prognostic and genetic study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia, 32, 1–162.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lucas, C. J., Sainsbury, P, & Collins, J. G. (1962). A social and clinical study of delusions in schizophrenia. Journal of Mental Science, 108, 747–758.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ludwig, A. M. (1972). Hysteria: A neurobiological theory. Archives of General Psychiatry, 27, 771–777.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Luisada, P V., Peele, R., & Pittard, E. A. (1974). The hysterical personality in men. American Journal of Psychiatry, 131, 518–522.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lynn, E. J., & Belza, M. (1984). Factitious post-traumatic stress disorder: The veteran who never got to Vietnam. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 35, 697–701.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mai, F M., & Merskey, H. (1980). Briquet’s treatise on hysteria: A synopsis and commentary. Archives of General Psychiatry, 37, 1401–1405.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mai, E M., & Merskey, H. (1981). Briquet’s concept of hysteria: A historical perspective. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 26, 57–63.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Maloney, J. J. (1980). Diagnosing hysterical conversion reactions in children. Journal of Pediatrics, 97, 1016–1020.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Manu, P., Lane, T. J., & Matthews, D. A. (1989). Somatization disorder in patients with chronic fatigue. Psychosomatics, 30, 388–395.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Marks, I., & Mishan, J. (1988). Dysmorphophobic avoidance with disturbed bodily perception. British Journal of Psychiatry, 152, 674–678.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • McCranie, E. J. (1979). Hypochondriacal neurosis. Psychosomatics, 20, 11–15.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • McKegney, F P (1967). The incidence and characteristics of patients with conversion reactions: I. A general hospital consultation service sample. American Journal of Psychiatry, 124, 542–545.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • McKenna, P. J. (1984). Disorders with overvalued ideas. British Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 579–585.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Meadow, R. (1977). Munchausen by proxy: The hinterland of child abuse. Lancet, 2, 343–345.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Meares, R., & Horvath, T. (1972). “Acute” and “chronic” hysteria. British Journal of Psychiatry, 121, 653–657.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mechanic, D. (1962). The concept of illness behavior. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 15, 189–194.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Mechanic, D. (1980). The experience and reporting of common physical complaints. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 21, 146–155.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Merskey, H., & Buhrich, N. A. (1975). Hysteria and organic brain disease. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 48, 359–366.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Meyer, E., Jacobson, W. E., Edgerton, M. T., & Canter, A. (1960). Motivational patterns in patients seeking elective plastic surgery: I. Women who seek rhinoplasty. Psychosomatic Medicine, 3, 193–203.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mumford, P R. (1978). Conversion disorder. Psychiatry Clinics of North America, 1, 370–390.

    Google Scholar 

  • Munro, A. (1987). Paranoid (delusional) disorders: DSM-III-R and beyond. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 28, 35–39.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Nadelson, T. (1979). The Munchausen spectrum: Borderline character features. General Hospital Psychiatry, 1, 11–17.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Nakdimen, A. (1977). A neglected reference. American Journal of Psychiatry, 134, 1313–1316.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nemiah, J. C. (1985). Somatoform disorders. In H. I. Kaplan & B. J. Saddock (Eds.), Comprehensive textbook of psychiatry (4th ed., pp. 924–942). Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nickoloff, S. E., Neppe, V. M., & Ries, R. K. (1989). Factitious AIDS. Psychosomatics, 30, 342–345.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Orenstein, H. (1989). Briquet’s Syndrome in association with depression and panic: A reconceptualization of Briquet’s Syndrome. American Journal of Psychiatry, 146, 334–338.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Orenstein, H., & Raskind, M. A. (1983). Polycystic ovary disease in two patients with Briquet’s disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 1202–1204.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Othmer, E., & DeSouza, C. (1985). A screening test for somatization disorder (hysteria). American Journal of Psychiatry, 142, 1146–1149.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pankratz, L. (1981). A review of the Munchausen Syndrome. Clinical Psychology Review, 1, 65–78.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parsons, T. (1951). Illness and the role of the physician: A sociological perspective. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 21, 452–460.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pennebaker, J. W. (1982). The psychology of physical symptoms. New York: Springer-Verlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pennebaker, J. W., & Skelton, J. A. (1978). Psychological parameters of physical symptoms. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 524–530.

    Google Scholar 

  • Perley, M. J., & Guze, S. B. (1962). Hysteria: The stability and usefulness of clinical criteria. New England Journal of Medicine, 260, 421–426.

    Google Scholar 

  • Petrie, A. (1978). Individuality in pain and suffering (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Philippopoulos, G. S. (1979). Analysis of a case of dysmorphophobia, psychopathology and psychodynamics. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 24, 397–401.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pilowsky, I. (1967). Dimensions of hypochondriasis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 113, 89–93.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pilowsky, I. (1969). Abnormal illness behavior. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 42, 347–351.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pilowsky, I. (1970). Primary and secondary hypochondriasis. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia, 46, 273–285.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Pope, H. G., Jonas, J. M., & Jones, B. (1982). Factitious psychosis: Phenomenology, family history, and long-term outcome of nine patients. American Journal of Psychiatry, 139, 1480–1483.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Pryse-Phillips, W. (1971). An olfactory reference syndrome. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia, 47, 484–509.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Purtell, J. J., Robins, E., & Cohen, M. E. (1951). Observations on clinical aspects of hysteria: A quantitative study of 50 hysteria patients and 156 control subjects. Journal of the American Medical Association, 146, 902–909.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Rabkin, R. (1964). Conversion hysteria as social maladaptation. Psychiatry, 27, 349–363.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Raskin, M., Talbott, J. A., & Meyerson, T. (1966). Diagnosis of conversion reactions. Journal of the American Medical Association. 197, 102–106.

    Google Scholar 

  • Reich, J. (1969). The judging of appearance: Psychological and related aspects. Medical Journal of Australia, 2, 5–13.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Reich, R, & Gottfried, L. A. (1983). Factitious disorders in a teaching hospital. Annals of Internal Medicine, 99, 240–247.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Reich, T., Cloninger, C. R., & Guze, S. B. (1975). The multifactorial model of disease transmission: I. Description of the model and its use in psychiatry. British Journal of Psychiatry, 127, 1–10.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Rickard, K. (1988). The occurrence of maladaptive health-related conduct problems in children of chronic low back pain patients. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 11, 107–115.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Riding, J., & Munro, A. (1975). Pimozide in the treatment of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia, 52, 23–30.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Robins, E., & O’Neal, P (1953). Clinical features of hysteria in children with a note on prognosis. Nervous Child, 10, 246–271.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Robins, L. N., Helzer, J. E., Weissman, M. M., Orvaschel, H., Gruenberg, E., Burke, J. D., Jr., & Regier, D. A. (1984). Lifetime prevalence of specific psychiatric disorders in three sites. Archives of General Psychiatry, 41, 949–958.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Roskin, G., Mehr, A., Rabiner, C. J., & Rosenberg, C. (1981). Psychiatric treatment of chronic somatizing patients: A pilot study. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 10, 181–187.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Routh, D. K., & Ernst, A. R. (1984). Somatization disorder in relatives of children and adolescents with functional abdominal pain. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 9, 427–437.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Roy, A. (1980). Hysteria. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 24, 53–56.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sakula, A. (1978). Munchausen: Fact and fiction. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, 12, 286–292.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sheehan, D. V., & Sheehan, K. H. (1982). The classification of anxiety and hysterical states: Part I. Historical review and empirical delineation. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacol-ogy, 2, 235–243.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Shipko, S. (1982). Alexithymia and somatization. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 37, 193–201.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Siegel, M., & Barthel, R. R (1986). Conversion disorders on a child psychiatry consultation service. Psychosomatics, 27, 201–204.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sifneos, R E. (1973). The prevalence of “alexithymic” characteristics in psychosomatic patients. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 22, 255–262.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sigal, M. D., Altmark, D., & Carmel, I. (1986). Munchausen Syndrome by Adult Proxy: A perpetrator abusing two adults. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174, 696–698.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sigal, M. D., Gelkopf, M., & Meadow, R. S. (1989). Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome: The triad of abuse, self-abuse, and deception. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 30, 527–533.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sigvardsson, S., Von Knorring, A. L., Bohman, M., & Cloninger, C. R. (1984). An adoption study of somatoform disorders: I. The relationship of somatization to psychiatric disability. Archives of General Psychiatry, 41, 853–859.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Simmons, R. G., & Rosenberg, E (1973). Disturbance in the selfimage at adolescence. American Sociological Review, 38, 553–568.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Slater, E. (1965). Diagnosis of “hysteria.” British Medical Journal, 1, 1395–1399.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Slater, E. T. O., & Glithero, E. (1965). A follow-up of patients diagnosed as suffering from “hysteria.” Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 9, 9–13.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Slavney, P. R., & Teitelbaum, M. L. (1985). Patients with medically unexplained symptoms: DSM-III diagnoses and demographic characteristics. General Hospital Psychiatry, 7, 25–35.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, G. R., Monson, R. A., & Livingston, R. L. (1985). Somatization disorders in men. General Hospital Psychiatry, 7, 4–8.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Smith, G. R., Monson, R. A., & Ray, D. C. (1986a). Patients with multiple unexplained symptoms. Archives of Internal Medicine, 146, 69–72.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Smith, G. R., Monson, R. A., & Ray, D. C. (1986b). Psychiatric consultation in somatization disorder. New England Journal of Medicine, 314, 1407–1413.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Spiro, H. R. (1968). Chronic factitious illness. Archives of General Psychiatry, 18, 569–579.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Spitzer, R. L., Endicott, J., & Robins, E. (1978). Research diagnostic criteria: Rationale and reliability. Archives ofGeneral Psychiatry, 35, 773–782.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Steckel, W. (1943). The interpretation of dreams. New York: Liveright.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stefansson, J. G., Messina, J. A., & Meyerowitz, S. (1976). Hysterical neurosis, conversion type: Clinical and epidemiological considerations. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia, 53, 119–138.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Stephens, J. H., & Kamp, M. (1962). On some aspects of hysteria: A clinical study. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 134, 305–315.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Stern, D. B. (1977). Handedness and the lateral distribution of conversion reactions. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 164, 122–128.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sternbach, R. A. (Ed.). (1978). The psychology of pain. New York: Raven.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stewart, T. O. (1983). Hysterical conversion reactions: Some patient characteristics and treatment team reactions. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 64, 308–310.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Sullivan, H. S. (1953). The interpersonal theory of psychiatry. New York: W. W. Norton.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sussman, N. (1989). Factitious disorders. In H. I. Kaplan & B. J. Saddock (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychiatry (5th ed., pp. 1136–1140). Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.

    Google Scholar 

  • Swartz, M., Blazer, D., George, L., & Landerman, R. (1986). Somatization disorder in a community population. American Journal of Psychiatry, 143, 1403–1408.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Swartz, M., Landerman, R., Blazer, D., & George, L. (1989). Somatization symptoms in the community: A rural/urban comparison. Psychosomatics, 30, 44–53.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Thomas, C. S. (1984). Dysmorphophobia: A question of definition. British Journal of Psychiatry, 144, 513–516.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Turner, S. M., Jacob, R. G., & Morrison, R. (1984). Somatoform and factitious disorders. In H. E. Adams & P Sutker (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of psychopathology (pp. 307–345). New York: Plenum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Veith, I. (1956). On hysterical and hypochondriacal afflictions. Bulletin in the History of Medicine, 30, 233–240.

    Google Scholar 

  • Volkmar, F. R., Poll, J., & Lewis, M. (1984). Conversion reactions in childhood and adolescence. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 23, 424–430.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Walker, E., Katon, W., Harrop-Griffiths, J., Holm, L., Russo, J., &Hickok, L. R. (1988). Relationship of chronic pelvic pain to psychiatric diagnoses and childhood sexual abuse. American Journal of Psychiatry, 145, 75–79.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Watson, C. G., & Buranen, C. (1979). The frequency and identification of false positive conversion reactions. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 167, 243–247.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Weddington, W. W. (1979). Conversion reaction in an 82-year-old man. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 167, 368–369.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Weinstein, E. A., Eck, R. A., & Lyerly, O. G. (1969). Conversion hysteria in Appalachia. Psychiatry, 32, 334–341.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Whitlock, F A. (1967). The aetiology of hysterical. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia, 43, 144–162.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Wickramasekera, I. (1989). Somatizers, the health care system and collapsing the psychological distance that the somatizer has to travel for help. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 20, 105–111.

    Google Scholar 

  • Woerner, P I., & Guze, S. B. (1968). A family and marital study of hysteria. British Journal of Psychiatry, 114, 161–168.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Woodruff, R. A., Clayton, P. J., & Guze, S. G. (1971). Hysteria: Studies of diagnosis, outcome and prevalence. Journal of the American Medical Association, 215, 425–428.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Woodruff, R. A., Robins, L. N., Taibleson, M., Reich, T., Schwin, R., & Frost, H. A. (1973). A computer assisted derivation of a screening interview for hysteria. Archives of General Psychiatry, 29, 450–454.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Woods, S. M., Natterson, J., & Silverman, J. (1976). Medical student’s disease: Hypochondriasis in medical education. Journal of Medical Education, 41, 785–790.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ziegler, F J., & Imboden, J. B. (1962). Contemporary conversion reactions. II. A conception model. Archives of General Psychiatry, 6, 37–45.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ziegler, F J., Imboden, J. B., & Meyer, E. (1960). Contemporary conversion reactions: I. A clinical study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 116, 901–909.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Ziegler, F J., Imboden, J. B., & Rodgers, D. A. (1963). Contemporary conversion reactions: III. Diagnostic considerations. Journal of the American Medical Association, 186, 91–95.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada

    Anthony Iezzi

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, USA

    Henry E. Adams

Authors
  1. Anthony Iezzi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Henry E. Adams
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Patricia B. Sutker

  2. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

    Henry E. Adams

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1993 Springer Science+Business Media New York

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Iezzi, A., Adams, H.E. (1993). Somatoform and Factitious Disorders. In: Sutker, P.B., Adams, H.E. (eds) Comprehensive Handbook of Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3008-4_9

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3008-4_9

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-4613-6310-1

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4615-3008-4

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation