Problem: A 30-year-old female is referred to the psychiatrist for an office visit for continued management of her somatization disorder. The patient has a history of many physical complaints over the past 10 to 12 years and has suffered significant impairment in social, occupational, and other areas of normal functioning. The patient is receiving an antidepressant medication, and this seems to be helping her. The medication is also helping with her obsessive ruminations that were identified through psychotherapeutic interventions. After each investigation of her complaints, there has been no known medical condition to explain them. Her treatment of choice by this psychiatrist is behavior modification therapy as an attempt to control her access to other physicians for repeated physical investigations and to give her support that her psychological condition is treatable. The patient will return for follow-up visits three times per week.
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