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

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Standard psychiatric textbooks frequently omit less common but important clinical topics related to a medical model view of psychiatry. This chapter covers four such additional topics: adjustment disorder, factitious disorder, psychiatric effects of illicit anabolic steroid abuse, and special psychiatric syndromes identified by eponyms or cultural ties.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota Medical School Medicine, 420 Delaware Street, SE Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

    S. Hossein Fatemi PhD

  2. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, 120 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005, USA

    Paula J. Clayton MD (Medical Director) (Medical Director)

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Yates, W.R. (2008). Other Psychiatric Syndromes: Adjustment Disorder, Factitious Disorder, Illicit Steroid Abuse, and Cultural Syndromes. In: Fatemi, S.H., Clayton, P.J. (eds) The Medical Basis of Psychiatry. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-252-6_17

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