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Somatization and Somatoform Disorders - Diagnosis and treatment of somatization and somatoform disorders.
Pseudoseizures or Somatoform Spells, Hysteroepilepsy or Somatoform - Examination of a new nomenclature which resembles epileptic seizures but which are in reality psychogenically induced.
Family Practice Notebook: Somatoform Disorder - Background information, pathophysiology, subclass list, and associated syndromes.
Somatoform Disorder: What It Is and How to Cope - Familydoctor.org offers an overview, describes causes, symptoms and possible treaments.
Somatoform Disorder and Implicit Memory Bias (Ott et al, 2000) - Summary of a poster presentation examining experiments comparing two sets of individuals, one set with the disorder and the second being a healthy control group.
Somatoform Disorders - Psyweb.com offers a general definition of this disorder. Includes details on the various types.
Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder - Information and message board about a somatoform disorder related to hallucinogen abuse.
Dr. David B. Adams - Somatoform Disorders - Psychological.com offers an overview of this disorder.
Boerhaavenet - Classificatie, prevalentie, oorzaken en verloop van somatoforme stoornissen. [PDF]
Forum für Psychosomatik - Diskussionstreffpunkt für Betroffene und Interessierte, der neben den Erkrankungen auch Selbsthilfegruppen, Kliniken und News umfasst.

Issy Pilowsky - Issy Pilowsky, AM, MB, ChB, MD (Capetown), DPM, FRANZCP, FRCPsych, FRACP, was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide from 1971 to 1997. He is known for the concept of abnormal illness behaviour, writings around pain and somatoform disorders.
Psychiatric casualty - A psychiatric casualty is a military combatant who is unable to continue fighting due to some sort of mental debilitation. The debilitations a casualty can suffer are extensive; they can be anything from affective disorders to somatoform disorders.
Psychosomatic medicine - Psychosomatic medicine is the medical field studying and providing an interdisciplinary approach to psychosomatic illness, now more commonly referred to as psychophysiologic illness, disorders whose symptoms are caused by mental processes of the sufferer rather than immediate physiological causes. These syndromes are classified as neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders by the World Health Organisation in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.