Per Fink

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Per Fink is head Professor, MD, PhD, DMSc of The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics. His approach to chronic fatigue syndrome is to classify it as a Functional Disorder with medically unexplained physical symptoms.

Notable studies

• 2017, Long-term economic evaluation of cognitive-behavioural group treatment versus enhanced usual care for functional somatic syndromes
• 2012 - Cognitive–behavioural group treatment for a range of functional somatic syndromes: randomised trial.

Dr. James Coyne's Dec. 7, 2016 PLOS ONE blog post critique of Per Fink's 2012 paper: Danish RCT of cognitive behavior therapy for whatever ails your physician about you

Clinic location

Aarhus University Hospital, Norrebrogade 44, DK-8000 Aarhus C

Tel. +45 7845 0000

Email: auh@rm.dk

Talks & interviews

• 2012, Somatoform disorders – functional somatic syndromes – Bodily distress syndrome. Need for care and organisation of care in an international perspective - EACLPP Lecture

[http://web.archive.org/web/20040908192433/http:/www.auh.dk/cl_psych/term/TERM-UK/term-dias02.pdf An advanced educational program for non-psychiatric physicians]

Online presence

• PubMed
• LinkedIn

Learn more

• Affiliated Institution: Aarhus University Hospital
• 2015, Per Fink complains about IOM ME/CFS report (Institute of Medicine report)

See also

• Karina Hansen
• Biopsychosocial model
• Medically unexplained physical symptoms

medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) - Technically, this term means that no cause or explanation for the patient's symptoms has yet been found. However, patients diagnosed with "MUPS" are generally lumped into a psychosomatic, or psychologically-caused category by those in the medical profession, without any scientific basis for doing so.

cognition Thought processes, including attention, reasoning, and memory.

somatic An adjective relating to the physical body or physical symptoms. It is often contrasted with the adjective "psychological", which refers to the human mind or mental symptoms. In biology, "somatic cells" refer to all the cells of the body, except those which form an egg or sperm.

somatic symptom disorder A psychiatric term to describe an alleged condition whereby a person's thoughts somehow cause physical symptoms. The actual existence of such a condition is highly controversial, due to a lack of scientific evidence. It is related to other psychiatric terms, such as "psychosomatic", "neurasthenia", and "hysteria". Older terms include "somatization", "somatoform disorder", and "conversion disorder". Such terms refer to a scientifically-unsupported theory that claims that a wide range of physical symptoms can be created by the human mind, a theory which has been criticized as "mind over matter" parapsychology, a pseudoscience.