Reconsidering Persistent Somatic Symptoms: A Transdiagnostic and Transsymptomatic Approach

Psychother Psychosom. 2025;94(1):20-25. doi: 10.1159/000541741. Epub 2024 Oct 29.

Bernd Löwe¹, Stephan Zipfel^{2

3}, Omer van den Bergh⁴, Peter Henningsen^{5

6}

¹ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Centre for Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
² Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Hospital, Tübingen, Germany.
³ German Centre for Mental Health (DZPG), Tübingen, Germany.
⁴ Health Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁵ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁶ German Centre for Mental Health (DZPG), Munich, Germany.

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Keywords: Biopsychosocial model; Fatigue; Persistent physical symptoms; Persistent somatic symptoms; Transdiagnostic approach.

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