PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Pain Disorder, Suicidal Ideation, Hypersexuality
17 Dec 2013
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Somatoform disorders: preoccupation with health or appearance becomes so great that it dominates their lives. Usually no identifiable medical condition causing physical complaints. Feeling detached from yourself or your surroundings. These mild sensations that most people experience periodically are slight alterations or detachments in consciousness or identity and they are known as dissociative experiences or dissociation. For some, these experiences are so intense and extreme that they lose their identity entirely an assume a new one or lose their memory or sense of reality and are unable to function dissociative disorders. Somatoform and dissociative disorders are strongly linked historically. Used to be categorized under one general heading: hysterical neurosis. Hysteria suggests that the cause of these disorders which were thought to occur primarily in women because of the wandering uterus" (hippocrates) Hysterical came to refer more generally to physical symptoms without known organic cause or to dramatic or histrionic behaviour thought to be characteristic of women.
