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  • Title: Family background and sexual abuse associated with somatization.
    Author: Kinzl JF, Traweger C, Biebl W.
    Journal: Psychother Psychosom; 1995; 64(2):82-7. PubMed ID: 8559957.
    Abstract:
    To help clarify the complex association between negative childhood experiences and somatization, the authors examined the possible relationship between self-reported childhood sexual abuse, dysfunctional family background and several types of somatization in a nonclinical sample. Three anonymous questionnaires were completed by 202 female university students (average age 22 years). The findings confirm that severe or repeated childhood sexual victimization and a familial deficiency syndrome in childhood may be important in the pathogenesis of somatization.
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