Open AccessCurrent debates over nosology of somatoform disorders
Author(s) -
Anirban Jana,
Samir Kumar Praharaj,
Joyita Mazumdar
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.110939
Subject(s) - nosology , rubric , psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , mathematics education
There is a wide debate among the researchers and clinicians over the diagnostic categories subsumed under the rubric of somatoform disorders (SDs). Recent proposals vary from radical views that call for removing this category altogether to the conservative views that suggests cosmetic changes in the diagnostic criteria of SDs. We have the reviewed the relevant literature through PUBMED search supplemented with manual search on current concepts of SD.