Somatic Symptom And Related Disorders Flashcards
He is a French physician who termed the disorder “Briquet’d Syndrome’ for people who have endless somatic complaints which he could find no medical basis.
Pierre Briquet
Illness Anxiety Disorder was formerly known as _.
Hypochondriasis
A disorder where physical symptoms are either not experienced at the present time or are very mild but severe anxiety is focused on the possibility of having or developing a serious disease.
Illness Anxiety Disorder
If individuals with somatic symptom disorders have additional diagnoses, these most likely are _ or _ disorders.
Mood or anxiety disorders
_ and somatic symptom disorder share many features with anxiety & mood disorders, particularly _ disorder including similar age of onset, personality characteristics and patterns of familial aggregation.
Illness Anxiety Disorder
A difficult-to-shake belief that they have a disease, referred to as _.
Disease conviction
The term “conversion’ was popularized by _, who believed the anxiety resulting from unconscious conflicts was somehow converted into physical symptoms to find expression.
Freud
This refers to a symptom without an organic cause.
Functional
A disorder that generally has to do with physical malfunctioning without any physical or organic pathology to account for the malfunction. It may include total mutism and loss of sense of touch. Some might have seizures.
Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder)
Seizures which may be psychological in origin, because no significant electroencephalogram changes can be documented.
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
The sensation of a lump in the throat that makes it difficult to swallow, eat or sometimes talk.
Globus Hystericus
A paradoxical absence of psychological distress despite having a serious medical illness or symptoms related to a health condition; which people with conversion disorder and severe somatic disorder have.
La Belle indifference
A disorder that falls somewhere between malingering and conversion disorders. The symptoms are under voluntary control but there is no obvious reason for voluntarily producing the symptoms except, possibly to assume the sick role and receive increased attention.
Factitious Disorder
Factitious Disorder Imposed on another was known previously as _.
Munchausen Syndrome by proxy
