title: Current debates over nosology of somatoform disorders.
abstract: There is a wide debate among the researchers and clinicians over the diagnostic categories subsumed under the rubric of somatoform disorders (SDs). Recent proposals vary from radical views that call for removing this category altogether to the conservative views that suggests cosmetic changes in the diagnostic criteria of SDs. We have the reviewed the relevant literature through PUBMED search supplemented with manual search on current concepts of SD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, KPC Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
authors.forename: Amlan K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Jana
authors.forename: Samir Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Praharaj
authors.forename: Joyita
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mazumdar
keywords: Conversion disorder; hysteria; medically unexplained symptoms; nosology; somatoform disorder