Is there a better term than “medically unexplained symptoms”?

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Somatoform Disorders: Time for a New Approach in DSM-V

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What do general practice patients want when they present medically unexplained symptoms, and why do their doctors feel pressurized?

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The proposed diagnosis of somatic symptom disorders in DSM-V to replace somatoform disorders in DSM-IV—a preliminary report

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Recent developments in the understanding and management of functional somatic symptoms in primary care

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What should we say to patients with symptoms unexplained by disease

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“Psychosomatic”: A Systematic Review of Its Meaning in Newspaper Articles

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Symptoms and the body: taking the inferential leap

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Functional somatic disorders: discussion paper for a new common classification for research and clinical use

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Chronic idiopathic pain in adolescence—High prevalence and disability: The young hunt study 2008

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Management of somatic symptom disorder

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Irritable bowel, chronic widespread pain, chronic fatigue and related syndromes are prevalent and highly overlapping in the general population: DanFunD

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Conversion Disorder: Current problems and potential solutions for DSM-5

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From psychogenic movement disorder to functional movement disorder: It's time to change the name

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Functional neurological disorders: The neurological assessment as treatment

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Total somatic symptom score as a predictor of health outcome in somatic symptom disorders

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A new questionnaire to identify bodily distress in primary care: the 'BDS checklist

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The common link between functional somatic syndromes may be central sensitisation

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Explanation as treatment for functional neurologic disorders

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Bodily distress syndrome: a new diagnosis for functional disorders in primary care?

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Medically Unexplained Symptoms: an acceptable term?

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Medical Student Attitudes About Mental Illness: Does Medical-School Education Reduce Stigma?

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Cohort description: The Danish study of Functional Disorders

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Effectiveness of psychotherapy for severe somatoform disorder: meta-analysis

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Terminology for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: Making the case for “functional seizures”

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The classification and nomenclature of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’: Conflict, performativity and critique

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Issues for DSM-5: Conversion Disorder

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Patients with persistent medically unexplained physical symptoms: a descriptive study from Norwegian general practice

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Symptom Validity Testing in Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders: A Critical Review

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Predictive validity and clinical utility of DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder — Comparison with DSM-IV somatoform disorders and additional criteria for consideration

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Enhanced care by generalists for functional somatic symptoms and disorders in primary care

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Personality traits, defense mechanisms and hostility features associated with somatic symptom severity in both health and disease

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The Distinction Between “Medically Unexplained” and “Medically Explained” in the Context of Somatoform Disorders

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A Note on Cognitive Dissonance and Malingering

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Affective temperaments and ego defense mechanisms associated with somatic symptom severity in a large sample

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Validation of the German version of the Bodily Distress Syndrome 25 checklist in a representative German population sample

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Terminology, classification and concepts

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Organisch nicht erklärbare somatoforme Beschwerden und Störungen im Alter: ein systematischer Literaturüberblick

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The framework for systematic reviews on psychological risk factors for persistent somatic symptoms and related syndromes and disorders (PSY-PSS)

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A Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) Analysis of Machine Learning Explainability, Transparency, Interpretability, and Shared Interpretability

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Recognition, explanation, action, learning: teaching and delivery of a consultation model for persistent physical symptoms

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Functional somatic syndromes may be either “polysyndromic” or “monosyndromic”

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Helpful strategies for GPs seeing patients with medically unexplained physical symptoms: a focus group study

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Clinical outcomes from The BodyMind Approach™ in the treatment of patients with medically unexplained symptoms in primary health care in England: Practice-based evidence

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Physical symptoms and brain morphology: a population neuroimaging study in 12,286 pre-adolescents

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Is physical disease missed in patients with medically unexplained symptoms? A long-term follow-up of 120 patients diagnosed with bodily distress syndrome

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Personal identity, somatic symptoms, and symptom-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors: Exploring associations and mechanisms in adolescents and emerging adults

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Explanation for symptoms and biographical repair in a clinic for persistent physical symptoms

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An investigation into the preferred terminology for functional seizures

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Boundaries are for crossing over! A call to fully use the potential of the new term(s) “persistent somatic/physical symptoms”

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Persistent pain: not a medically unexplained symptom

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Naming and renaming ‘medically unexplained symptoms’: Is the perfect the enemy of the good?

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