PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia, Factitious Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

Soma means body and somatoform disorders involve patterns where individuals complain of bidoly symptoms or defects that suggest the presence of medical problems but for which no organic basis can be found. People with hypochondriasis are preoccupied either with fears of contracting a serious disease or with the idea that they actually have such a disease even though they do not. Anxious and preoccupied with bodily functions or minor physical abnormailities or vague and ambiguous physical sensations. Criteria that must be met for diagnosis are: four pain symptoms, two gastrointestinal symptoms, one sexual symptom and one pseudoneurological symptom. Occurs more in women and in lower socioeconomic classes lifetime prevalence is . 2 to 2 percent in women and less than . 2 percent in men. There is linkage between antisocial personality disorder in men and somatization disorder in women in families. Pain disorder is characterized by the experience of persistent and severe pain in one or more areas of the body.