caa a22 4500 388110929 CHVBK 20180307125353.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0924270800035845 doi S0924270800035845 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0924270800035845 Somatization disorders in non psychiatric settings: A multidimensional diagnostic approach [Elektronische Daten] Given the diagnostic ambiguity of physically unexplained complaints we wanted to study whether the clinically and symptomatically characterized groups, all of them defined according to DSM-III-R criteria, could be reclassified using selected empirical and theoretical variables of operationally defined parameters. Patients with conversion (N = 75), somatization or undifferentiated somatoform disorders (N = 74) and major depression (N = 70) according to DSM-III-R underwent multidimensional work-up including psychopathological, personality-psychological, illness, behavioral and coping assessment. The clinically characterized groups should be statistically reclassified by discriminant analytic techniques. The existing diagnostic categories according to DSM-III-R could be widely confirmed by the statistical reconstitution of the clinical groups. Conversion, somatization and depressive disorder presented as distinct clinical categories. A classification relying widely on symptoms still seems to be too superficial and does not represent the complexity of these patients. Thus, the modern classification systems with their purely phenomenological criteria should be added with further dimensions. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 conversion disorder nationallicence hypochondriasis nationallicence mood disorder nationallicence somatization disorder nationallicence Ebel H. Müller-Küppers M. Acta Neuropsychiatrica Cambridge University Press 11/4(1999-12), 117-119 0924-2708 11:4<117 1999 11 NEU https://doi.org/10.1017/S0924270800035845 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0924270800035845 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ebel H. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Müller-Küppers M. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Acta Neuropsychiatrica Cambridge University Press 11/4(1999-12), 117-119 0924-2708 11:4<117 1999 11 NEU CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge