Selected Reading
- Mitchell CM. Drossman DA: The irritable bowel syndrome: Understanding and treating a biopsychosocial illness disorder. Ann Behav Med 9(3): 13, 1987
- Thompson WG: The irritable bowel. Gut 25: 305, 1984
- Drossman DA et al: Psychosocial factors in the irritable bowel syndrome: A multivariate study of patients and nonpatients with IBS. Gastroenterology 95: 701. 1988
- Sandler RS et al: Symptom complaints and health care seeking behavior in subjects with bowel dysfunction. Gastroenterology 87: 314, 1984
- Thompson WG: A strategy for management of the irritable bowel. Am J Gastroenterol 81: 95, 1986
- Whitehead WE: Irritable bowel syndrome: Physiological and psychological mechanisms. In Gastrointestinal Disorders: Behavioral and Physiological Basis for Treatment, Whitehead WE. Schuster MM (Eds). Academic Press, Orlando. Fla, 1985. pp 70–209
- Snape WJ Jr et al: Evidence that abnormal myoelectrical activity produces colonic motor dysfunction in the irritable bowel syndrome. Gastroenterology 72: 383. 1977
- Kruis W et al: A diagnostic score for the irritable bowel syndrome: Its value in the exclusion of organic disease. Gastroenterology 87: 1, 1984
- Drossman DA: Psychosocial treatment of the refractory patient with irritable bowel syndrome. J Clin Gastroenterol 9: 253, 1987
- Latimer PR: Irritable bowel syndrome: A behavioral model. Behav Res Ther 19: 475, 1981
- Svedlund J et al: Controlled study of psychotherapy in irritable bowel syndrome. Lancet 11: 589. 1983