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Somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder are diagnostic categories that were newly introduced in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association 2013). Although the categories are new, they refer to a well-known clinical profile with high relevance in all areas of medicine: patients who suffer from bodily distress over and beyond what would be expected from their documented organic disease and/or who express high health anxiety. Related disorders such as conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder) and functional somatic syndromes are covered elsewhere in this book (see Chapter 25, “Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Syndromes,” and Chapter 30, “Neurology and Neurosurgery”), but this chapter will also refer to classificatory overlap issues.
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