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Book Review: Somatization Disorders: Treating Somatization: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach

Somatizing disorders present as medically unexplained physical symptoms often associated with mood or anxiety symptoms and sometimes with an identified medical disorder. Psychiatrists find these disorders frustrating to treat because they don’t present with psychosocial or mental problems and don’t respond well to usual psychotherapy or psychotropic medications. Until the recent burgeoning of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), the accepted management, according to a randomized controlled trial by Smith et al, was to provide regular emotional support and reduce costs by avoiding excessive investigation and hospitalization. The authors of this book take treatment of somatoform disorders a leap forward by integrating several management approaches into a brief treatment with demonstrated results.