Psychological positive criteria are going to play an important role for the new classification of somatoform disorders (SFD). Magial thinking (MT, for example believing in telepathy or clairvoyance) has hardly been examined among patients with SFD. 248 patients of an university based allergy department participated in a structured clinical interview for DSM-IV (SCID) in order to diagnose an SFD and answered several self-report questionnaires in order to evaluate psychological characteristics. Patients with SFD reached higher scores of MT than those without SFD. In comparison to more established predictors for SFD (such as somatization, depression, disease conviction) MT showed less predictability. Theoretical and practical implicatons of these findings are being discussed.
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Psychological positive criteria are going to play an important role for the new classification of somatoform disorders (SFD). Magial thinking (MT, for example believing in telepathy or clairvoyance) has hardly been examined among patients with SFD. 248 patients of an university based allergy department participated in a structured clinical interview for DSM-IV (SCID) in order to diagnose an SFD and answered several self-report questionnaires in order to evaluate psychological characteristics. Pa...
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