CAS PS 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Baron Munchausen, Anna O., Sigmund Freud
3 Jan 2017
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Psych/emotional systems/experience interact with psych factors, and can cause worsening of or improvement in symptom patterns. Somatic disorders: soma = body, preoccupation with health or appearance, physical complaints, no id medical condition, somatization o a tendency to describe emotions through reference to body sensations (ex. Illness anxiety disorder: conversion disorder (functional neuro symp disorder, factitious disorder. Dsm disorder: d. the symptom or deficit is associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning"s or warrants medical evaluation, conversion reactions are not uncommon in soldiers exposed to combat. Symptoms often disappear, but return later in the same or similar form when a new stressor occurs: conversion symptoms are common in some cultural and rural fundamental religious groups. However, the symptoms would not meet criteria for a disorder unless they persist and interfere with life functioning: the wandering uterus.
