PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Dissociative Disorder
29 Nov 2017
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Somatic symptom disorders: excessive or maladaptive response to physical symptoms or associated health problems [illness anxiety disorders] Freud used to think that somatic symptoms can be characterized by conversion hysteria where unconscious and repressed thoughts can be manifest into worries about things which are more acceptable such as physicality. Main difference between panic and somatic symptom disorders is the fact that in panic, there is more immediate concern about physical results in the instants when the panic attack happens [short-term results], rather than long-term illnesses. Somatic disorders are more chronic and distributed equally across the old and young. Malingering: faking having symptoms hard to differentiate from people with conversion disoder. Types of somatic disorders: somatic symptom disorder. Patients are usually not concerned about the disease that might make them ill but rather the symptoms they experience themselves. In some cases, psychological and behavioural factors like anxiety can augment the impairment associated with the symptoms [no physical symptoms themselves exist]
