CONTENTS — volume 23, suppl 3, 1997

Original article

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The environmental syndrome--psychosomatic disease experience induced by environmental factors. Proceedings of the XII Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Symposium. Espoo, Finland, September 28-29, 1995.

Review

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Somatization and fashionable diagnoses: illness as a way of life
Ford CV
17
Chronic fatigue syndrome: a 20th century illness?
Wessely S
35
Multiple chemical sensitivity: pseudodisease in historical perspective
Shorter E
43
The message of psychosomatic diseases
Rechardt E
47
Psychosocial environmental factors and psychosocially mediated effects of physical environmental factors
Levi L
53
Placebo -- the forgotten drug
Boström H

Clinical report

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Symptoms and differential diagnosis of patients fearing mercury toxicity from amalgam fillings
Stenman S, Grans L
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Experiences from the amalgam unit at Huddinge hospital -- somatic and psychosomatic aspects
Langworth S
69
Clinical features of multiple chemical sensitivity
Levy F
75
Food intolerance and psychosomatic experience
Vatn MH
79
Unemployment as a disease and diseases of the unemployed
Janlert U
85
Changes in health status and health behavior among Finnish adults 1978-1993
Lahelma E, Rahkonen O, Berg M-A, Helakorpi S, Prättälä R, Puska P, Uutela A
91
Clinical concepts and dilemmas between disease and averse life events
Getz L
97
Technological stress: psychophysiological aspects of working with modern information technology
Arnetz BB

Concluding discussion

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On the nature and origin of psychosomatic symptoms