PY 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Malingering, Chemotherapy
26 Sep 2018
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Chapter outline: somatic symptom and related disorders, dissociative disorders, malingering. Abnormal excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors regarding that disorder: no specific physical symptoms needed for diagnosis, common complaints include back pain, chest pain and headaches. Case studies: (cid:862)a(cid:373)y (cid:449)as diag(cid:374)osed (cid:449)ith (cid:271)reast (cid:272)a(cid:374)cer. About 6 months after she completed treatment, she felt a nagging pain in her upper back. It was not a sharp pain but a dull pain that would not go away. No matter what she did, the ache was there. Amy remembered that her mother, who had died from (cid:271)reast (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:272)er, had pai(cid:374) i(cid:374) her (cid:271)a(cid:272)k, too. It tur(cid:374)ed out that her (cid:373)other"s (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:272)er had metastasized to her bones. Amy worried and the doctor ordered a bone scan. The results indicated that she did not have bone cancer. The doctor thought the pain was the result of a muscle strain.
