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Medically unexplained symptoms can be extremely distressing and debilitating for patients, but they are often difficult to treat. In this podcast Dr Raj Persaud talks to Dr Richard Brown about his 'integrative cognitive' model of medically unexplained symptoms, and discusses the practical implications regarding treatment.
Presenter: Dr Raj Persaud
Interviewee: Dr Richard Brown
Audio running time: 27 minutes
Credits: 0.5
Learning outcomes
By the end of this podcast we hope you will have gained an understanding of:
how medically unexplained symptoms can manifest
some of the psychological models and how to incorporate these into treatment
some of the psychology experiments involved in this area.
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