Is Hypochondriasis an Anxiety Disorder?

Overview

Journal Br J Psychiatry

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2009 May 30

PMID 19478284

Citations 23

Authors

Bunmi O Olatunji

Brett J Deacon

Jonathan S Abramowitz

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Abstract

Although hypochondriasis is currently classified as a somatoform disorder, the underlying cognitive processes may be more consistent with an anxiety disorder. This observation has important implications for treatment and subsequent revisions of the diagnostic classification of hypochondriasis.

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