Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Headache, Asthma, Suggestibility

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

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Somatic symptom and related disorders: five basic somatic symptom disorders: Clinical description: b(cid:396)i(cid:395)uet"s sy(cid:374)d(cid:396)o(cid:373)e: patients used to go to pierre briquet in 1859 with somatic complaints that had no medical basis and then they would return with same complaints or with slight variations, now became somatic symptom disorder. Illness anxiety disorder: used to be hypochondriasis (still used in public, physical symptoms are not present or are mild but severe anxiety on possibility of having or developing serious disease. If one or more physical symptoms are relatively & associated with anxiety and distress somatic symptom disorder. Diagnostic criteria: preoccupation with having or acquiring serious illness, somatic symptoms are not present or only mild. Illness preoccupation has been present for at least 6 months but specific illness feared may change over that period of time. Illness related preoccupation is not better explained by another mental disorder such as somatic symptom disorder, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, body dysmorphic disorder or.