PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Malingering, Wrinkle, Psychoanalysis
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Somatoform disorders = person complain about bodily ymptoms that uggest physical defect but no. Dissociative disorders = person has disruption of conciousnes, memory, identity. Psychological problems take physical form. symptoms thought to be linked with anxiety ---> not under voluntary control. Onset and maintanance of pain caused by psycological factors. Preoccupation with imagined defect in the phyical appearance. Conversion disorder sensory/motor symptom without a physiologial cause. Somatizaion recurrent multiple phyical complait - no physiological bai. Person experiences pain that causes significant distress and impairment. Factors are important in onset, maintainance, and severity of the pain. Client may be unable to - dependant on tranquilizers or pain killers. Allow person to avoid unpleasant activity or get attention and sympathy. Person preoccupied with body distortion ---> typical in face (wrinkle, acces facial hair, shape/size of nose) Men = height, penis length (haha zak :d) Clients spend hours checking themelves in the mirror .
