BIOL 1010 Lecture Notes - Conversion Disorder, Electra Complex, Visual Cortex
30 Jan 2013
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O munchausen syndrome; making yourself ill purposely, or when a mother purposely makes her child ill to take care of them and feel like a good mother. Somatisation disorder: recurrent, multiple somatic complaints, with no apparent physical cause, for which medical attention is sought. These symptoms usually cause impairment, particularly regarding work. The specific symptoms of the disorder may vary across cultures. The disorder may be more frequent in cultures that de-emphasize the overt display of emotion. Somatisation disorder and conversion disorder share many symptoms, and both diagnoses may apply to the same patient. It may not be as stable as the dsm implies; in one study, only one third of patients with somatisation disorder still met diagnostic criteria when reassessed 12 months later. Somatisation disorder also seems to run in families; it is fund in about 20% of the first-degree relatives of index cases.
