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The new somatic symptom disorder in DSM-5 risks mislabeling many people as mentally ill
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This new condition suggested in the bible of mental health diagnoses lacks specificity, says Allen Frances
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Emerging themes in the revision of the classification of somatoform disorders
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Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Treacherous Foundation for Somatoform Disorders?
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“Critics argue that a large percentage of seriously physically ill individuals are anxious enough about their condition to meet criteria for having maladaptive thoughts and feelings and thus qualify for psychiatric diagnosis (Frances 2013).”
BackgroundSomatic symptom disorder: a scoping review on the empirical evidence of a new diagnosis
Löwe, B., Levenson, J., Depping, M., Hüsing, P., Kohlmann, S., Lehmann, M., Shedden-Mora, M., Toussaint, A., Uhlenbusch, N., & Weigel, A. (2022) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291721004177 · Cited by 217
“After publication, SSD criteria were criticized as imprecise (Mayou, 2014) and overinclu-sive, risking overdiagnosis (Frances, 2013).”
BackgroundMethodChronic pain, psychopathology, and DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder
Katz, J., Rosenbloom, B. N., & Fashler, S. (2015) · The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1177/070674371506000402 · Cited by 195
The common link between functional somatic syndromes may be central sensitisation
Bourke, J. H., Langford, R. M., & White, P. D. (2015) · Journal of Psychosomatic Research · doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.01.003 · Cited by 129
“Terms such as psychosomatic, ‘medically unexplained’, somatisation and somatoform seem to beg more questions than answers, and have lost their clinical and scientific utility [172], resulting in significant recent debate surrounding new classifications [5,173].”
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- Authors
- Frances, A.
- Corresponding author
- Frances, A.
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2013-03-18
- Volume
- 346
- Issue
- mar18 3
- Pages
- f1580-f1580
- ISSN
- 1756-1833 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2055812845
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Medicine, History, and Philosophy
- Keywords
- somatic symptom disorder, DSM-5, diagnostic criteria, overdiagnosis, diagnostic specificity, psychiatric diagnosis
- MeSH terms
- Mental Disorders, Diagnosis, Differential, Diagnostic Errors, Female, Humans, Male, Somatoform Disorders, Risk Assessment, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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