Book contents
- Seminars in the Psychotherapies
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in the Psychotherapies
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Therapy Theory and Practice
- Part II Applied Psychotherapeutic Thinking
- Section 1 Psychological and Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry
- Chapter 13 Psychological Approaches to Affective Disorders
- Chapter 14 Psychological Approaches to Psychosis
- Chapter 15 Personality Disorder
- Chapter 16 Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Chapter 17 Psychological Approaches to Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- Chapter 18 The Psychodynamics of Self-Harm
- Chapter 19 Psychodynamic Aspects of Suicide and Homicide
- Chapter 20 Forensic Psychotherapy
- Section 2 Work in Practice
- Section 3 Contemporary Developments
- Index
- References
Chapter 17 - Psychological Approaches to Medically Unexplained Symptoms
from Section 1 - Psychological and Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
Book contents
- Seminars in the Psychotherapies
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in the Psychotherapies
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Therapy Theory and Practice
- Part II Applied Psychotherapeutic Thinking
- Section 1 Psychological and Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychiatry
- Chapter 13 Psychological Approaches to Affective Disorders
- Chapter 14 Psychological Approaches to Psychosis
- Chapter 15 Personality Disorder
- Chapter 16 Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Chapter 17 Psychological Approaches to Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- Chapter 18 The Psychodynamics of Self-Harm
- Chapter 19 Psychodynamic Aspects of Suicide and Homicide
- Chapter 20 Forensic Psychotherapy
- Section 2 Work in Practice
- Section 3 Contemporary Developments
- Index
- References
Summary
Since antiquity it has been postulated that emotions can produce or interact with physical illnesses. That statement in its broadest sense describes the field of psychosomatic medicine, which concerns itself with the multitude of ways that psychological and physical factors intersect – for example depression and myocardial infarction. The subject of this chapter is somewhat narrower – the issue of medically unexplained symptoms (MUS), defined below. A detailed account of the broader field of psychosomatics is given by Schoenberg [1].
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