PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Etiology, Fugue State, Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Symptoms interference with lifestyle: cognitive factors. A previous experience of illness and related medical factors. The presence of inflexible or negative cognitive assumption are always a sign of serious illness. Somatization disorder: used to be known as briquet"s syndrome. Etiology of somatoform disorders: directed solely toward understanding hysteria as conceptualized by. Behavioural theory of conversion disorder: ullmann & krasner. Social and cultural factors of conversion disorder: the decrease in this incidence may be attributed to a general relaxing of sexual mores and to greater sophistication of contemporary culture. Which is more tolerant of anxiety than it is of dysfunctions that do not make physiological se. Page 1: rewarding the person for behaving in ways inconsistent with the pain (toughing it out, behaviour therapists have applied a wide range of techniques intended to make it worthwhile for the patient to give up the symptoms.