“…At present, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is the method of choice in the treatment of SSD (Gottschalk & Rief, 2012). However, CBT has been shown to be less effective in SSD than in other mental disorders, raising the question which specific characteristics of SSD patients are not completely addressed by CBT (Gottschalk, Bleichhardt, Kleinstäuber, Berking, & Rief, 2015). Therefore, recent approaches in psychotherapy have started addressing the improvement of emotion processing abilities in somatoform patients (Gottschalk et al, 2015;Kleinstäuber, Gottschalk, Berking, Rau, & Rief, 2016).…”