PSYC 3640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Edial, Elizabeth Loftus, Dsm-5
20 Oct 2016
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In addition to acute stress disorder and ptsd, two other groups of disorders are commonly linked to stress and anxiety: Somatic symptom disorders are problems that appear to be medical but are actually caused by psychosocial factors. Individuals truly experience the symptoms, which do not go away until the psychological issues are resolved. Dissociative disorders are patterns of memory loss and identity change that are caused by psychosocial factors rather than physical ones. The somatic symptom and dissociative disorders have much in common: Both may occur in response to severe stress. Both have traditionally been viewed as forms of escape from stress. A number of individuals suffer from both somatic symptom and dissociative disorder. Theorists and clinicians often explain and treat the two groups of disorders in similar ways. When a physical ailment has no apparent medical cause, doctors may suspect a somatic symptom disorder.
