Comprehensive management of persistent somatization: an innovative inpatient program.

摘要: Psychiatry has been largely unsuccessful in developing effective treatment strategies for patients with chronic somatization. They continue to utilize a disproportionate share of health care resources and experience personal distress significant social occupational dysfunction. The Psychosomatic Medicine Unit at the Clarke Institute is attempting treat these comprehensive program that takes into account multifactorial etiology disturbance. unit tertiary facility patient population heterogeneous respect underlying psychiatric diagnosis duration symptoms. All are significantly dysfunctional have typically failed other approaches. process begins an assessment phase which comprehensively evaluated from physical perspectives. rehabilitation consists variety modalities including group programs goal-setting, life skills interpersonal relations, therapy, individual psychotherapy, family therapy vocational rehabilitation, biofeedback physiotherapy. Psychotropic medications play important role some patients. This paper will describe its detail.