Psychotherapy may help hypochondria

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: March 25, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

CHICAGO -- A breakthrough study found that psychotherapy can help hypochondriacs deal with their fears. But the treatment has its limits: A quarter of the patients quit after being told the problem was in their heads.

Hypochondria is a mental, not physical, illness. Getting sufferers to believe that is part of the challenge in treating them.

"Most hypochondriac people never will go to a psychiatrist," said study author Dr. Arthur Barsky of Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "They'll say, 'I don't need to talk about this, I need somebody to stick a biopsy needle in my liver, I need that ...

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