PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Depersonalization Disorder, Brain Tumor, Radial Nerve
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Somatoform disorders: a group of disorders in which people experience significant physical symptoms for which there is no apparent organic cause. Symptoms: inconsistent with possible physiological processes, and there is strong reason to believe that psychological factors are involved. People with somatoform disorders usually do not consciously produce or control the symptoms. They truly experience the symptoms, and the symptoms pass only when the psychological factors that led to the symptoms are resolved. Diagnosis of somatoform disorder is easier when the psychological factors leading to the development of the symptoms can clearly be identified or when physical examination can prove that the symptoms cannot be physiologically possible. Individuals truly experience the symptoms, which do not go away until the psychological issues are resolved. Pseudocyesis: an extreme example of a somatoform disorder, or false pregnancy in which women believes she is pregnant but physical examinations and laboratory tests confirm that she is not.
