Hypochondriasis

Known as: Hypochondriacal Neurosis, HYPOCHONDRIA, Hypochondriasis [Disease/Finding]

Preoccupation with the fear of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms. (APA…

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1998

The term hypochondriasis was first coined over 2000 years ago to describe a physical illness afflicting the hypochondrium…

1987

The overall effect of zotepine was a "slightly improved" or better response in 20 patients (64.5%), "unchanged" in 10 (32.3%) and…

1984

One of the objectives of this paper is to differentiate between various types of hypochondria. Phenomenic, dynamic and clinical…

1979

The relationship between personal characteristics of office-based primary-care physicians, characteristics of their routine…

1979

: The theoretical distinction between psychopathology based on intrapsychic conflict and psychopathology rooted in a…

1973

fashionable at the time. The process is unconscious as each medical theorist is convinced he has at last found the real basis of…

Highly Cited

1973

Highly Cited

1973

Eighty-five female depressed patients were treated for 4 weeks with amitriptyline in a flexible dose (median, 150 mg daily…

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