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A Protocol of Manual Tests to Measure Sensation and Pain in Humans
Published on: December 19, 2016
Abstract:
The paper discusses further cases of somatization (somatization disease, conversion, chronic pains) as distinct from simulation. Views of the somatization disease and conversion are based on a classification of psychopathology which has not been generally used in Czechoslovakia. The paper gives a hypothetical explanation of today's more frequent occurrence of somatization. It describes a simple screening test used for diagnosing somatization (hysteria), and suggests principles of elementary procedure to be applied in patients with subjective somatic complaints.
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