Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Historical review of management of nervous and somatic disorder
2: Overview of epidemiology, classification and aetiology
3: Overview of treatment
Treatment Methods
4: How to engage the patient in treatment
5: The use of antidepressants and other drug treatments
6: Cognitive behavioural treatment
7: Psychodynamic treatment
Clinical Syndromes
8. Hypochondriasis:
9: Patients with multiple symptoms
10: Chronic pain
11: Treatment of dysmorphophobia
Specific symptoms
12: Irritable bowel and abdominal pain
13: Pre-menstrual tension
14: Chronic fatigue
15: Low back pain
16: Pelvic pain
Special populations
17: Treatment of somatic symptoms in the elderly
18: Management of somatic symptoms in children
Organisation of care
19: Management in primary care
20: Management in general hospitals

Reviews

`Based on a 1992 Oxford conference, the book is tightly constructed ... Both plain speaking and sophisticated, the book belongs in the library of all consultation-liaison psychiatrists.'
Donna B. Greenberg, Psychosomatics, volume 37, number 1, January/February 1996
`beautifully presented text ... the editing has produced a coherent whole with a feeling for consensus, as if all the authors had co-operated in the production ... This text is highly recommended. It will be a standard for many years and represents something of the best in Oxford and British psychiatry.'
Gordon Lennox, Family Practice, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1996
`a welcome addition to the literature, concentrating almost exclusively on treatment techniques and originating from a conference held in Oxford in late 1992 ... The chapters on treatment are full of clinical wisdom.'
Robert Peveler, University of Southampton, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 40, no. 5, May 1996