A FAMILY WITH ABDOMINAL-PAIN

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 92  (669) , 278-279
Abstract
The case history is presented of a middle-aged woman with a battle scarred abdomen who has had abdominal pain for over 20 yr and more than 36 hospital admissions in this time. Her children have also had 25 hospital admissions for abdominal pain and 3 normal appendices removed. This complaint of recurrent abdominal pain not due to a physical disorder, is conceptualized in terms of abnormal illness behavior rather than in traditional terms such as hysteria and hypochondriasis.

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