Whether hypochondriasis is treated through educational, cognitive-behavioral, psychopharmacological, or psychodynamic means, clinical experience suggests that all treatments benefit from a salubrious patient-physician relationship. Therefore, I conclude this section with several recommendations…

Bodies are not perfect. But the extent to which individuals attend to their own perceived imperfections varies greatly. The variability of this focused attention on specific aspects of the body depends on many factors…

The reluctance of somatizing patients to accept psychiatric referral and treatment is familiar to both psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrist physicians and often is a concomitant of frustrating interactions for both patients and physicians (Lin…