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Edited by Mark A. Demitrack and Susan E. Abbey. 317 pp. New York, Guilford Press, 1996. $35. ISBN 1-57230-038-8.

Brave indeed are those who set out to write a book about chronic fatigue syndrome. Here is a condition (many authors, including Demitrack and Abbey, wisely avoid calling it a disease) for which a consensus definition has yet to be achieved and that has no common physical findings, no consistent laboratory abnormalities, an uncertain (and undoubtedly heterogeneous) cause, and no satisfactory treatment.

Despite these obstacles, Demitrack and Abbey have made a good attempt to put together and edit an academically oriented monograph that reviews most of the issues concerning chronic fatigue. Since the editors are both psychiatrists, there is an . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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