Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Somatisation and Bodily Distress: Developing Better Clinical Services (Cambridge Medicine (Hardcover)) Illustrated Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0521762236
ISBN-10: 0521762235
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Medically unexplained symptoms and somatisation are the fifth most common reason for visits to doctors in the USA, and form one of the most expensive diagnostic categories in Europe. The range of disorders involved includes irritable bowel syndrome, chronic widespread pain and chronic fatigue syndrome. This book reviews the current literature, clarifies and disseminates clear information about the size and scope of the problem, and discusses current and future national and international guidelines. It also identifies barriers to progress and makes evidence-based recommendations for the management of medically unexplained symptoms and somatisation. Written and edited by leading experts in the field, this authoritative text defines international best practice and is an important resource for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, primary care doctors and those responsible for establishing health policy.
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Written and edited by leading experts in the field, this authoritative text reviews current literature and defines international best practice.
About the Author
Francis Creed is Professor of Psychological Medicine, School of Community-Based Medicine, University of Manchester.
Peter Henningsen is Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine, Technical University Munich.
Per Fink is Professor of Functional Disorders, The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
Peter Henningsen is Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine, Technical University Munich.
Per Fink is Professor of Functional Disorders, The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.
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- Publisher : Cambridge University Press; Illustrated edition (August 22, 2011)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 268 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0521762235
- ISBN-13 : 978-0521762236
- Item Weight : 1.21 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.14 x 0.63 x 9.21 inches
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 27, 2019
A truly evidence-based and thorough review of this complex and emotive area. It is absolutely clear that this book is written with the intention of convincing the reader that these conditions, and the disability they cause, is very real. A recommended read for doctors first and foremost, with the intention of building compassion and empathy for their patients
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Dr Francis Creed's text is a very helpful reference when grappling with using the new DSM-5 in the clinical setting.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 6, 2013
Cogent, well written review of current literature on bodily distress/MUS/somatization. I recommend this text to medical students and all physicians working in a clinical setting, Dr Peter I. M. Moran.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2011
For heaven's sake I need to give this a star? I was planning to say "outdated when it was written" & was dismayed to find it was published this year. Great. How can self respecting doctors/researchers ignore over 4,000 papers which prove physiological basis to ME/CFS? Including inflammation of the brain and spinal cord? How can they ignore Dr. Anthony Komaroff, the Steven P. Simcox/Patrick A. Clifford/James H. Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Health Publications. He was Director of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women's Hospital for 15 years and is the Founding Editor of Journal Watch, a summary medical information newsletter for physicians published by the Massachusetts Medical Society/New England Journal of Medicine? He's been studying this illness since the 1970's, and has stated that the debate is over, there is a biological cause & further that the name "myalgic encephalomyelitis" is accurate (meaning inflammation of the brain & spinal cord). Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is not a trivial illness; it is more debilitating than most healthy people could imagine. I got it in 1958, long before the illness became "popular" I was six years old and didn't know anyone with the illness, so I wasn't hysterically copying someone else. In 1968 I was diagnosed with Post Viral Fatigue, another synonym of M.E. Again I didn't know anyone with my constellation of symptoms -which are exactly that of the new ME definition. How prescient is that? Following Freud who based his interesting stories on 8 women, the psychiatrists are traipsing down the well worn path of "blame the victim". The path is getting slicker & slicker as more and more "hysterical" or "psychosomatic" or "somatoform disorders" have been proven to be physiological. Do not have a responsibility to read the spectrum of literature on their fields? Even I, as a patient have read literature against the view that ME is physiological, and have followed the many convolutions that the "loyal opposition" has put itself through to keep convincing itself that ME is not an organic illness. It would be an amusing history were it not deadly. Professor Wessely came out of the gate, in 1987, claiming that ME was one of two forms of Mass Hysteria. Please docs, give it up, you aren't going to win this one & the longer you persist the more harm you are doing to very ill people.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2011
Some doctors are inclined to reduce what they don't understand to a psychosomatic disorder, and unfortunately this is often deemed culturally acceptable. In the 1800's tuberculosis was considered a "romantic disease," associated with heightened sensitivity and spiritual purity, and caused by a "melancholic" temperament. Multiple sclerosis, in similar fashion, was reduced to an illness caused by "hysteria." In both cases, the scientific research revealed the truth in time, and each disease was proven to be anything but psychosomatic in its origin.
In this day and age, those who suffer from ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis--previously known as chronic fatigue syndrome) are being misdiagnosed and mistreated with the same kind of disregard as the TB and MS patients before them. Books like this encourage the suffering of those who are seriously ill with ME to continue. "The treatment of today's ME/CFS-patients is comparable to that of lobotomy patients decades ago" "When the full history of ME/CFS is written one day, we will all be ashamed of ourselves" ~ Prof. Dr. Ola Didrik Saugstad, Professor of Pediatrics, WHO Advisor, Norway
In this day and age, those who suffer from ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis--previously known as chronic fatigue syndrome) are being misdiagnosed and mistreated with the same kind of disregard as the TB and MS patients before them. Books like this encourage the suffering of those who are seriously ill with ME to continue. "The treatment of today's ME/CFS-patients is comparable to that of lobotomy patients decades ago" "When the full history of ME/CFS is written one day, we will all be ashamed of ourselves" ~ Prof. Dr. Ola Didrik Saugstad, Professor of Pediatrics, WHO Advisor, Norway
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 6, 2018
I have been ill for 30 years with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
It began with a sudden onset of Epstein Barr.
My brain, spine, and heart were affected from the very beginning.
Initially I was left blind, paralyzed, and unable to speak or come
out of a coma like sleep for hours at a time. This is a very complex
disease and research is proving its biologic basis. IT IS REAL.
I am so ashamed I ever thought about going into the field of psychology
before I became ill !! Psychology is truly useless and based on no
scientific evidence at all. ( If these people in the field of psychology
cared about people they would be working to get the homeless mentally
ill off the streets!! )
So many lives have been devastated by the so called naming of "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome".
This naming by the CDC was meant to trivialize a very severe neurologic disease so we Cost$ nothing.
I am sick and tired of our CARELESS medical system.
The MILLIONS MISSING campaign can help shed light on the false view we are just hysterical women.
We have research to prove we are ill, and can now go in a direction that can relieve the suffering of so many,
but we cannot bring back the lives that have been lost to the disease in heart failure, cancers, suicide, and
other organ failure. OUR Medical system FAILED us miserably by Not listening, Not caring, and Not using
their educations to HELP us get our lives back. My life has been wasted because of them.
ALL diseases are medically unexplained till proper research is done!!
It began with a sudden onset of Epstein Barr.
My brain, spine, and heart were affected from the very beginning.
Initially I was left blind, paralyzed, and unable to speak or come
out of a coma like sleep for hours at a time. This is a very complex
disease and research is proving its biologic basis. IT IS REAL.
I am so ashamed I ever thought about going into the field of psychology
before I became ill !! Psychology is truly useless and based on no
scientific evidence at all. ( If these people in the field of psychology
cared about people they would be working to get the homeless mentally
ill off the streets!! )
So many lives have been devastated by the so called naming of "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome".
This naming by the CDC was meant to trivialize a very severe neurologic disease so we Cost$ nothing.
I am sick and tired of our CARELESS medical system.
The MILLIONS MISSING campaign can help shed light on the false view we are just hysterical women.
We have research to prove we are ill, and can now go in a direction that can relieve the suffering of so many,
but we cannot bring back the lives that have been lost to the disease in heart failure, cancers, suicide, and
other organ failure. OUR Medical system FAILED us miserably by Not listening, Not caring, and Not using
their educations to HELP us get our lives back. My life has been wasted because of them.
ALL diseases are medically unexplained till proper research is done!!

