PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Somatization Disorder, Factitious Disorder
19 Sep 2016
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Physical symptoms with no underlying physical cause (psychological condition and causation) Not a factitious disorder (malingering) actually experience pain an symptoms. Not a lot of community prevalence and less in research literature etiology. Illustrate close connection between physical and psychological: fallacy of mind-body dualism. Higher prevalence in clinical setting especially medical care settings. Important in development of psychological and psychiatric concepts that are still relevant today. Prevailing view is etiological factors are psychological/cognitive and perhaps behavioural. Disorders demonstrate fallacy of body-mind dualism: power of psychological thought to influence physical functioning. Many of us have experienced mild forms of these disorders. Suggestion that it is psychological or placebo is sometimes enough of a treatment. Somatic symptom disorder (most former cases of hypochondriasis and somatization disorder) Psychological factors affecting other medical conditions: attitude affects recovery from surgery or disease, people who belief they won"t recover well don"t and vice versa, voodoo power of mind over body (being cursed)
