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New directions in the treatment of somatization.

Woolfolk RL, Allen LA, Tiu JE

Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, 152 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. woolfolk@princeton.edu <woolfolk@princeton.edu>

Patients who have multiple medically unexplained symptoms have baffled and perplexed health care professionals for many years. Given the substantial costs of somatization to both patients and the health care system, there is a pressing need for effective treatments. This article describes a recently developed, evidence-based psychosocial treatment for medically unexplained symptoms and the therapeutic rationale that underlies it. The authors' work provides efficacious treatment options for this refractory and debilitating set of disorders.

Published 16 October 2007 in Psychiatr Clin North Am, 30(4): 621-44.
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