title: Clinical relationship between nonspecific and specific symptoms in non-psychotic morbidity.
abstract: The phenomenon of non-specific somatic symptom presentation by patients with non-psychotic mental morbidity attending primary care clinics is a well recorded one. The nature of clinical relationship of these symptoms to specific psychiatric phenomena was studied in a group of non-psychotic patients attending a primary care general hospital clinic. It was seen that both types of symptoms occur with equal frequency in these patients. It appears that non-specific symptoms are a preferred mode of presentation of this category of patients rather than the possibility that they totally 'mask' or predominate more than specific psychiatric phenomena.
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, (Tamarai) Porur, Madras-600116.
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Srinivasan
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Suresh