CLP-4143 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Kenneth Bianchi, Fugue State, Psychogenic Amnesia
26 Mar 2018
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People w/ somatic symptom disorders experience bodily symptoms that cause them signi cant psychological distress and impairment. Patients may experience symptoms with no medical basis. We focus speci cally on the 4 most important disorders in the somatic symptom and related disorders category: somatic symptoms disorder, illness anxiety disorder, conversion disorder, and factitious disorder. Includes previous dsm-iv categories of hypochondriasis, somatization disorder, and pain disorder. For the diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder, individuals must be experiencing chronic somatic symptoms that are distressing to them. They must be experiencing dysfunctional thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors and physical symptoms don"t need to be medically explained. Concerns of the dsm-v diagnosis criteria for somatic symptom disorder. People diagnosed w/ somatic symptom disorder might look very di erent from a clinical perspective. Freud, brewer, and janet: symptoms developed as a defense mechanism against unresolved or unacceptable unconscious con icts. Cognitive-behavioral perspectives on disorders such as hypochondriasis and somatoform disorders are likely still valid and informative.
