The clinical inadequacy of the DSM-5 classification of somatic symptom and related disorders: an alternative trans-diagnostic model

@article{Cosci2015TheCI,
  title={The clinical inadequacy of the DSM-5 classification of somatic symptom and related disorders: an alternative trans-diagnostic model},
  author={Fiammetta Cosci and Giovanni Andrea Fava},
  journal={CNS Spectrums},
  year={2015},
  volume={21},
  pages={310 - 317}
}
  • F. Cosci, G. Fava
  • Published 28 December 2015
  • Medicine, Psychology
  • CNS Spectrums
The Diagnostic and Statistical of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) somatic symptom and related disorders chapter has a limited clinical utility. In addition to the problems that the single diagnostic rubrics and the deletion of the diagnosis of hypochondriasis entail, there are 2 major ambiguities: (1) the use of the term “somatic symptoms” reflects an ill-defined concept of somatization and (2) abnormal illness behavior is included in all diagnostic rubrics, but it is never conceptually… 
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