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One of medicine’s great challenges is the management of psychosomatic symptoms. These include medically ambiguous somatic symptoms, nonspecific neurological deficits, and the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral response to these symptoms. Although psychotherapy and modifications to behavior and lifestyle play the major roles in alleviating these symptoms, pharmacological intervention can also be helpful. This chapter reviews what is known about pharmacological interventions for three psychosomatic processes: illness anxiety, somatization, and conversion.
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