Description:
This book offers a broad and scholarly synthesis of the current knowledge -- and controversies -- about somatoform and factitious disorders. Here you'll find up-to-date, clinically focused overviews of these intriguing and often difficult-to-treat disorders.
Review Quotes:
"The chapters present a nice balance between theory and practical management. Despite the relative brevity of the book, I found the reviews comprehensive enough for the book to be used as a reference text. I would recommend this as a textbook to primary care residents as part of their training. They must contend with somatoform disorders on a daily basis. I would also highly recommend the book to any mental health professional who consults regularly with medical colleagues. When I am consulted for the impossible task of having to 'rule out conversion disorder, ' it will be good to know that this text is on my bookshelf."-- "Robert J. Gregory, M.D., Psychosomatics", "September 2003"