PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fugue State, Somatic Symptom Disorder
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Somatoform disorder complaints of bodily symptoms that suggest physical defect or dysfunction, but no physiological evidence. Pain disorder onset and maintenance of pain caused largely by psychological factors: 3 subtypes: Pain disorder associated with both psychological factors and a general medical condition. Pain disorder associated with a general condition: mri showed decrease in grey matter in prefrontal, cingulated, and insular cortex which related to modulation of subjective pain. Body dysmorphic disorder preoccupation with imagined or exaggerated defects in physical appearance: chronic, related to ocd could even pass as a subtype, could pass as a social phobia, mood disorder, or even an eating disorder. Conversion disorder sensory or motor symptoms without any physiological cause: usually in adolescence or early adulthood after life stress, *some people actually get this diagnosis when there is actually something wrong. The daughter becomes sexually attached to father, but this is repressed.
