PSYCH257 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Sick Role, Schizophrenia
21 Apr 2016
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Dsm-5 highlights the psychological experiences of anxiety and distress important feature is that pain is real whether or not there are clear physical reasons for pain. Adis or cancer she avoided exercise, drinking, and even laughing because she was scared of the sensations doctors said nothing was wrong with her but fears did not go away. 2. tend to have a disproportionate incidence of disease in their family when they were children important social and interpersonal influence may be involved. Conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder) term conversion and was popularized by freud that unconscious conflicts gave rise to physical symptoms to find expression functional refers to a symptom without an organic cause. Unconscious mental processes people who say they have a disability when they perform on test the same as others. Statistics: conversion mostly occurs in women, that typically develop after adolescence in some cultures conversion symptoms are very common with religion.
