Somatisation

Question 1

What is somatisation?

Answer 1

Multiple physical symptoms for at least 2 years

Patient refuses to accept reassurance or negative test results

Question 2

What is hypochondrial disorder?

Answer 2

Belief in the presence of an underlying serious disease

Patient refuses to accept reassurance or negative test results

Question 3

What is conversion disorder?

Answer 3

Loss of motor or sensory function

Don’t consciously feign symptoms

Question 4

What is dissociative disorder?

Answer 4

Process if separating off certain memories from normal consciousness
Involves psychiatric disorder amnesia, fugue, stupor
Dissociative identity disorder

Question 5

What is factitious disorder?

Answer 5

Munchausen’s syndrome

Intentional physical or psychological symptoms

Question 6

What is malingering?

Answer 6

Fraudulent simulation or exaggeration of symptoms with the intention of financial or other gain