The authors present here a case of somatization disorder in a heterosexual male veteran. The age at onset of 7 years is the earliest yet reported in a male. Extensive medical records provide a unique opportunity to follow the course of a relatively severe case of this condition and demonstrate that it fulfills the most rigorous diagnostic criteria that have been formulated. Yet, the case of Orville N is more than a lengthy list of medically unexplained symptoms, showing as it does a number of other features traditionally associated with the broad category of hysterical psychopathology. © 1981 by The Williams & Wilkins Co.
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Pitman, R. K., & Moffett, P. S. (1981). Somatization disorder (Briquet’s syndrome) in a male veteran. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 169(7), 462–466. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-198107000-00009
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