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T1  - Psychological Mechanisms of Medically  Unexplained Sysmptoms An Integrative Conceptual Model.  (Articles].
A1  - Brown, Richard J.
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-8027390931312519904
AB  - Theories of medically unexplained illness based on the concepts of dissociation, conversion, and somatization are summarized. Ividence cited in support of these theories is described and the conceptual strengths and shortcomings of each approach are considered. It is argued that each of these approaches adds to the understanding of unexpalined illness but  that none is able to provide a comprehensive explanation of the phenimenon. An integrative conceptual model of unexplained illness based on cognitive psychological principles is then presented. This model attempts to combine existing theoretical approaches within a single explanatory framework, extendingprevious  by explaning how compelling symptoms can exist in the absence of organic pathology. The clinical and empirical implications of the model are then considered..-- ( from the author)
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