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Psychosomatic symptoms
Author(s) -
A M NAHUM,
J GOLDEN
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1968.tb07933.x
Subject(s) - citation , psychology , psychiatry , computer science , library science
This term implies bodily disorders and symptoms which have partly emotional etiology, and which are partly due to individual constitutional weaknesses. They include symptoms emanating from the central nervous system, such as headaches and migraine, from the organs of circulation, such as pallor, blushing, tachycardia, from the respiratory organs, such as asthma, from the organs of digestion, such as abdominal pains, queasiness, constipation, encopresis, from the urinary system, such as enuresis nocturna and diurna. Jonsson & Kalvesten (1964) include also disturbed sleep and feeding problems, which Kanner (1962) places among ”behavioural problems”, while Lomholt (1965) assigns food problems to psychosomatic symptoms and disturbed sleep to ”behavioural disturbances”. I have chosen to follow the classification made by Jonsson & Kalvesten.