Somatization in response to undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder in a family
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Somatization is a common problem in primary care and often presents puzzling problems for the family physician. A family or contextual approach is often useful in investigating and treating refractory symptoms.</p> <p>Cas...
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Somatization is a common problem in primary care and often presents puzzling problems for the family physician. A family or contextual approach is often useful in investigating and treating refractory symptoms.</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>A 63 year-old patient presented to his family physician with recurrent episodes of syncope, weakness and various other somatic symptoms. Lengthy clinical investigations found no organic pathological findings but a brief family assessment by the family physician revealed that the patient's wife was the "hidden" patient. Successful treatment of the patient's wife led to full recovery for both.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Exploration and treatment of the family context may often hold the key to the solution of difficult problems in somatizing patients.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d6f795cbfe804a4fb1154ccd7b645e282022-12-22T03:38:04ZengBMCBMC Family Practice1471-22962003-02-0141110.1186/1471-2296-4-1Somatization in response to undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder in a familyYaphe JohnWeiss RachelFogelman Yacov<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Somatization is a common problem in primary care and often presents puzzling problems for the family physician. A family or contextual approach is often useful in investigating and treating refractory symptoms.</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>A 63 year-old patient presented to his family physician with recurrent episodes of syncope, weakness and various other somatic symptoms. Lengthy clinical investigations found no organic pathological findings but a brief family assessment by the family physician revealed that the patient's wife was the "hidden" patient. Successful treatment of the patient's wife led to full recovery for both.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Exploration and treatment of the family context may often hold the key to the solution of difficult problems in somatizing patients.</p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/4/1obsessive-compulsive disorderfamily medicinedepressionfamily therapyhidden patientsomatization |
| spellingShingle | Yaphe John Weiss Rachel Fogelman Yacov Somatization in response to undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder in a family BMC Family Practice obsessive-compulsive disorder family medicine depression family therapy hidden patient somatization |
| title | Somatization in response to undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder in a family |
| title_full | Somatization in response to undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder in a family |
| title_fullStr | Somatization in response to undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder in a family |
| title_full_unstemmed | Somatization in response to undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder in a family |
| title_short | Somatization in response to undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder in a family |
| title_sort | somatization in response to undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder in a family |
| topic | obsessive-compulsive disorder family medicine depression family therapy hidden patient somatization |
| url | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/4/1 |
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