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Other Psychiatric Syndromes: Adjustment Disorder, Factitious Disorder, Illicit Steroid Abuse, Cultural Syndromes

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Many psychiatric textbooks omit less common, yet important, clinical topics in the medical basis of psychiatry. This chapter covers four such additional areas: adjustment disorder, factitious disorder, illicit anabolic steroid abuse, and special psychiatric syndromes identified by eponyms or cultural ties.

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Yates, W.R. (2016). Other Psychiatric Syndromes: Adjustment Disorder, Factitious Disorder, Illicit Steroid Abuse, Cultural Syndromes. In: Fatemi, S., Clayton, P. (eds) The Medical Basis of Psychiatry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2528-5_17

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