Chronic somatizers and the Government White Paper

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 3rd edn, revised. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1987

Deighton C.M. , Nicol A.R. Abnormal illness behaviour in young women in a primary care setting: is Briquet's syndrome a useful category? Psychol Med 1985; 254: 3075–9

Deighton C.M. An investigation in abnormal illness behaviour in young women. BMedSci Thesis. University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1984

Shepherd M. , Wilkinson G. Primary care as the middle ground for psychiatric epidemiology. Psychol Med 1988; 18: 263–7