Title: Phantom Illness: Recognizing, Understanding, and Overcoming Hypochondria
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0395859921
ISBN 13: 9780395859926
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 0.88 pounds

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Draws on interviews with physicians and the case studies of sufferers to describe the nature of hypochondria, explains how medicine has dismissed the disorder, and discusses a range of treatments

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Carla Cantor's long, dark road to hypochondria began when she crashed a car she was driving, killing a friend of hers. She couldn't forgive herself, and a few years later began imagining that she was suffering from lupus. Many years and two hospitalizations later, she wrote this book not only about her experiences, but about hypochondria in general (now more politely referred to as a "somatoform disorder"). No matter what one chooses to call them, psychosomatic disorders--imagined illnesses--present a huge burden to medical systems, and only by taking them seriously can we hope to alleviate their costs. By putting a human face on this often laughed-at syndrome, and by showing ways out of it, Cantor provides a great service not only to "somatizers" and their loved ones, but to the entire healthcare system.

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