Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Factitious Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Gail Robertson

Document Summary

Chapter 5: somatic symptom, dissociative, and factitious disorders. The interplay of physical symptoms, environmental stress, and emotional distress can create different types of psych impairments known as somatic symptom and related disorders, and dissociative disorders. 5. 1 understand how normal physical sensations can create abnormal concerns about somatic functioning. Somatic symptom and related disorders: characterised by excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviour related to somatic symptoms, physical pain is experienced but cannot be fully explained by an established medical condition. The individual disorders do not share an underlying emotion or common etiology; people with this category of disorder experience thoughts, feelings, or behaviours in relation to the physical symptoms that seem out of proportion to the symptoms themselves. The specific disorders include somatic symptom disorder, illness anxiety disorder, conversion disorder, and factitious disorder. In 1859, french physician pierre briquet wrote an influential paper describing psychiatric patients with many somatic complaints that seemed to lack a physical cause.