Hypochondriasis. Symptom at the crossroad or a road crossing the syndromes?
Collin, A.; Reynaert, C.; Janne, P.; Vause, M.; Cassiers, L.
Acta Psychiatrica Belgica 89(1-2): 19-30
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8967 PMID: 2485618 Document Number: 339352
Even if widely described, hypochondriasis remains a multidimensional concept which has to be carefully reconsidered: different meanings are indeed involved in its use, coming from historical and classical psychiatry, and from psychoanalysis as well as from the new trends in psychosomatic medicine and liaison psychiatry. The syndrome/symptom confusion has to be avoided. It also appears that some light should be shed on the concept of the term "hypochondriasis", which has been used abusively in modern psychiatry.