FROM HYSTERIA TO SOMATIZATION - A HISTORICAL-PERSPECTIVE

Authors
FINK P
Citation
P. Fink, FROM HYSTERIA TO SOMATIZATION - A HISTORICAL-PERSPECTIVE, Nordic journal of psychiatry, 50(5), 1996, pp. 353-363
Citations number
50
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
Journal title
Nordic journal of psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
08039488
Volume
50
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
353 - 363
Database
ISI
SICI code
0803-9488(1996)50:5<353:FHTS-A>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
The phenomenon of somatization - that is, that some patients present p hysical symptoms that cannot be supported by organic findings - has en gaged medicine throughout centuries. Knowledge of history is useful in the present exploration of the phenomenon and in the discussion of it s nosologic state and limitation. In the present review the historical lines are drawn, with the greatest importance attached to hysteria an d the various underlying hypotheses.