Somatic presentations of mental disorders : refining the research agenda for DSM-V / edited by Joel E. Dimsdale [and others].

Arlington, Va. : American Psychiatric Association, [2009], ©2009.

xxvii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

1st ed.

Presents a selection of articles reprinted from Psychosomatic medicine, v. 69, 2007.

A selection of papers reporting the proceedings of a conference titled "The future of psychiatric diagnosis: refining the research agenda."

Epidemiology of the association between somatoform disorders and anxiety and depressive disorders / Roselind Lieb, Gunther Meinlschmidt, Ricardo Araya -- The association or otherwise of the functional somatic syndromes / Richard A.A. Kanaan, Jean Pierre Lepine, Simon C. Wessely -- Cultural models and somatic syndromes / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Norman Sartorius -- Influence of cultural and social factors on the epidemiology of idiopathic somatic complaints and syndromes / Javier I. Escobar, Oye Gureje -- Are somatoform disorders changing with time? / Sing Lee, Arthur Kleinman -- A biological substrate for somatoform disorders / Joel E. Dimsdale, Robert Dantzer --

Somatoform and substance use disorders / Deborah Hasin, Hila Katz -- Stability of somatoform symptoms / Winfried Rief, Graciela Rojas -- What is the evidence for the efficacy of treatments for somatoform disorders? / Athula Sumathipala -- Are treatments for common mental disorders also effective for functional symptoms and disorder? / Richard Mayou -- Efficacy of treatment for somatoform disorders / Kurt Kroenke -- The evidence for treatments for somatoform disorders / Susan Levenstein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.