Michael Trimble

Somatoform Disorders (eBook, PDF)

A Medicolegal Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

People with somatoform disorder (which used to be known as hysteria) present with a range of symptoms that typically last for years and can't be traced to a specific physical cause. Such symptoms may include frequent headaches; back pain; abdominal cramping and pelvic pain; pain in the joints, legs and arms; chest or abdominal pain, and gastrointestinal problems. This book is an in-depth, clinically orientated review of the somatoform disorders and related clinical presentations (such as chronic fatigue syndrome) and how they present in a medico-legal setting. It is aimed at both clinicians and lawyers who deal with injury claims where these disorders impact much more frequently than is generally recognised.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511189029
• Artikelnr.: 38188547

Autorenporträt

DOB 20 May 1946. Professor of Behavioural Neurology at the Institute of Neurology and consultant physician to the National Hospitals for Neurology and Neurosurgery. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Member of the American Neurological Association, Member of the Association of British Neurologists, Chairman of the British Neuropsychiatric Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Historical overview
2. Classification and the somatoform disorders
3. Clinical presentations
4. Malingering
5. Memory in a medicolegal context
6. Assessment, treatment and prognosis
7. Somatoform disorders in a medicolegal context
8. Mechanisms
9. Causation and the question of consciousness
Appendix: Civil procedure rules Part 35
Index.