PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antibody, Iad, Amenorrhoea
22 Feb 2017
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Psychological factors such as stress, worry and unconscious needs can contribute to bodily illness. Factitious disorder: a person induces physical symptoms for assuming the role of a sick person. People go to extremes to create appearance of illness. Common among those who received extensive treatment for a medical problem as a child, carry a grudge against the medical profession or worked as a nurse etc. Causes are not clear but factors such as depression, unsupportive parents during childhood and need for social support are contributing factors. Factitious disorder imposed on another, known as munchausen syndrome by proxy: parents make up physical illnesses in their children leading to medications and surgeries. Conversion disorder and somatic symptom disorder: when a bodily ailment has an excessive impact on the patient without any medical cause. Conversion disorder: a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s (cid:271)odil(cid:455) s(cid:455)(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s affe(cid:272)t thei(cid:396) (cid:448)olu(cid:374)ta(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:373)oto(cid:396) a(cid:374)d sensory functions but the symptoms are inconsistent with any medical diseases.
