Sentences with phrase «as hypochondriasis»

This may include the actual denial of the death, with schizophrenic tendencies, or psychosomatic disease such as hypochondriasis, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, or asthma.

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They are declared «healthy» and sent on their way, or labeled as having a functional illness — a term used by some traditional medicine physicians meaning the patient has a psychiatric illness such as stress or hypochondriasis causing their symptoms.

We conducted a two - year follow - up study of patients with Health anxiety defined either as fulfilling criteria for DSM - IV Hypochondriasis and / or the recently introduced empirically established Health anxiety diagnosis [2](Table S1).

In the early 1990s, Dr. Ludgate was a Research Clinical Psychologist at the University of Oxford in England and served as cognitive therapist in several outcome studies of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia and hypochondriasis.

Several features of severe health anxiety, here defined as Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM - IV) hypochondriasis, lead to high societal costs of illness.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the cost effectiveness of ICBT compared with internet - delivered behavioural stress management (IBSM) for adults with severe health anxiety defined as Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM - IV) hypochondriasis.

These features include severe health anxiety, which is associated with increased healthcare consumption and functional impairment.1, 2 It is also a relatively common disorder and, in the absence of treatment, it is chronic for most patients.3, 4 Since health anxiety can be viewed as a dimensional phenomenon, ranging from adaptive concerns to severely debilitating anxiety, 5 the term severe health anxiety is used in this paper to denote our reference to clinically significant impaired individuals meeting diagnostic criteria of DSM - IV hypochondriasis.