PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fugue State, Derealization, Hillside Strangler
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Dsm-iv somatoform disorders (conversion disorder and somatization disorder) Somatic symptom disorder: a newly described diagnosis in the dsm-5. Central theme is experiencing somatic symptoms that cause significant distress or impairment and that involve excessive thoughts, feelings and behaviours in response to these symptoms. Individuals are pre-occupied with persistent fears of having a serious disease, despite medical reassurance to the contrary. Illness anxiety disorder: pain, conversion disorder, factitious disorder (cid:862)soma(cid:863) = bod(cid:455, where psychological problems take a physical form and physical symptoms have no physiological explanation and are not under voluntary control. Clinical description: somatic symptom(s, person has at least 1 somatic symptom that bothers them. Cultural differences: p(cid:396)e(cid:448)ale(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374) ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)al is (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld(cid:449)ide, (cid:449)hat"s diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t is ho(cid:449) the(cid:455) e(cid:454)p(cid:396)ess their symptoms. Onset: can occur at any age (even older adults) . Comorbidity: people can be diagnosed with a medical condition, but their concerns are quite excessive. Also, anxiety tends to co-occur together as well as depression.
