Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Sympathetic Nervous System, Analog Science Fiction And Fact

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Chapter 6 somatic symptom and dissociative disorders (pg. Somatic symptom disorder disorders involving extreme and long-lasing focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident: includes illness anxiety disorder, medical cause of physical symptom may be known but emotional distress. Dissociative disorders disorders in which individuals feel detached from themselves or surroundings and reality, experience, identity may disintegrate. Somatic and dissociative disorders linked and share common features: previously titled under hysterical neurosis, conversion hysteria (freud) unexplained physical symptoms results of unconscious emotional conflicts in a more acceptable form. 5 basic somatic symptom and related disorders include somatic symptom, illness anxiety, psychological factors affecting med condition, conversion disorder, factitious disorder. Briquet"s syndrome (1859) described patients with endless somatic complaints. Concern with symptoms themselves and not what they might mean. Don"t always feel urgency to take action but continually feel weak and ill, avoid w/o med basis exercise.