PSYCH 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Iatrogenesis, Suggestibility, Dream Interpretation
23 Mar 2016
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Used to be classiied as hysterical neurosis (another label for bdd) Freudian perspecive: emoion and anxiety are converted to physical (somaic) symptoms. Somaic symptoms: physical problems with psychological causes or contribuions; medically unexplained and subjecive. Dissociaive experiences: expressions of the unconscious, normal connecions not funcioning properly. Malingering: faking symptoms for material gain (hillside strangler) Faciious disorder: creaing symptoms for atenion (munchausen syndrome by proxy) Physical symptoms that cause distress of dysfuncion, distorted cogniion (excessive thoughts and disproporionate worrying), lasing for 6+ months. Primary issue is a fear of physical ailments (present or future) marked by catastrophic thinking, interocepive confusion and persistence in the face of medical feedback. Cogniive distorions: bias for illness/conirmaion bias, skewed understanding of probability, perceptual distorions of bodily states. Culture speciic: koro (shrinking genitals), dhat (semen loss), and the like. Hypochondriasis involves health anxiety and somaic symptoms, but illness anxiety. Disorder (iad), a speciier, has no somaic symptoms and accounts for 25% of cases.
