General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 25, Issue 2 , Pages 108-114 , March 2003

Predictors of somatic symptoms in depressive disorder

  • Kemal Sayar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • Karadeniz Technical University Medical School, Trabzon, Turkey
    • ,
  • Laurence J Kirmayer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • Iinstitute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.:+514-340-7549; fax:+514-340-7503. Kemal Sayar is a Visiting Scholar (NATO fellow) at McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
    • ,
  • Suzanne S Taillefer, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Iinstitute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada

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General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 25, Issue 2 , Pages 108-114 , March 2003

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