Medically Unexplained Symptoms, Somatisation and Bodily Distress

1. Epidemiology: prevalence, causes and consequences Francis Creed, Arthur Barsky and Kari Ann Leiknes; 2. Terminology, classification and concepts Peter Henningsen, Per Fink, Constanze Hausteiner-Wiehle and Winfried Rief; 3. Evidence-based treatment Francis Creed, Kurt Kroenke, Peter Henningsen, Alka Gudi and Peter White; 4. Current state of management and organisation of care Per Fink, Chris Burton, Jef de Bie, Wolfgang Soellner and Kurt Fritzsche; 5. Barriers to improving treatment Peter Henningsen, Christian Fazekas and Michael Sharpe; 6. Gender, lifespan and cultural aspects Constanze Hausteiner-Wiehle, Gudrun Schneider, Sing Lee, Athula Sumipathala and Francis Creed; 7. Medically unexplained symptoms in children and adolescents Emma Weisblatt, Peter Hindley and Charlotte Rask; 8. Identification, assessment and treatment of individual patients Francis Creed, Christina van der Feltz, Else Guthrie, Peter Henningsen, Winfried Rief, Andreas Schroeder and Peter White; 9. Training Per Fink, Kurt Fritzsche, Wolfgang Soellner and Astrid Larisch; 10. Achieving optimal treatment organisation in different countries - suggestions for service development applicable across different healthcare systems Francis Creed, Peter Henningsen and Richard Byng; Index.