PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Borderline Personality Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Panic Disorder
14 Mar 2018
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Conversion disorder: dsm: oldest known of somatic symptom disorders, one or more symptoms of altered voluntary motor or sensory function. Narrowing criteria: symptom incompatible with recognized neurological or medical condition. Have to rule out other disorders/conditions: symptoms not better explained by another medical or mental condition, symptom causes clinically significant distress or impairment, or warrants medical evaluation, specification of symptom type: Ford estimated 20-25% of general medical patients meet criteria. Dsm-5 estimated 5% of neurology referrals meet the criteria: disagreement on sex bias. Dsm-5 estimated 2:1 to 3:1 female/male ratio. Prototype=female under 45 from rural or culturally unsophisticated background: usually first appears in adolescence or early adulthood, suddenly after stress. Comorbidity: other somatic disorders, anxiety disorders, especially panic disorder, gad, depressive disorders, dissociative disorders: 47, ocd, borderline personality disorder. Conversion disorder etiology: freud: conversion disorder was previously called hysteria (roaming uterus) Tied it to sex; freud believed that hysteria was due to traumatic early sexual experiences (rape: modern psychoanalysis:
