PSYCH 270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
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Conversion hysteria: unexplained physical symptoms indicated the conversion of unconscious emotional conflict into a more acceptable form. Somatic symptom disorder: disorder involving extreme and long- lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident. Excessive or maladaptive response to physical symptoms or to associated health concerns- medically unexplained physical symptoms . Illness anxiety disorder: somatic symptom disorder (previously known as somatoform disorder) involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause. The concern is primarily with the idea of being sick instead of the physical symptom itself. Clinical description illness anxiety disorder and somatic symptom disorder share many features with the anxiety and mood disorders, particularly panic disorder, including similar age of onset, personality characteristics, and patterns of familial aggregation (running in families). Illness anxiety disorder: the individual is preoccupied with bodily symptoms, misinterpreting them as indicative of illness or disease.
