What is Somatoform disorders?
A somatoform disorder is a clinical complaint of symptoms made by a patient for which there is no physical exidence of disease. There are five main types of somatoform disorder: 1. Hypochondriasis 2.
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What is a somatoform disorder?
Somatoform disorders include conversion disorder, somatisation disorder, hypochondriasis, body dysmorphic disorder and pain disorder.
Somatoform disorders are relatively common but the exact prevalence is difficult to determine.
Somatoform disorders can affect anyone of any age. The exact number of people affected is difficult to determine as many cases are probably not diagnosed. Somatisation disorder is thought to be quite rare, perhaps affecting about 1 in 1,000 people.
The somatoform disorders are a group of mental disturbances placed in a common category in DSM-IV on the basis of their external symptoms.
somatoform disorders
Overview: Somatoform disorders occur when patients experience physical symptoms that cannot be attributed to a specific disease or disorder.
Somatoform disorders are psychological disorders which are characterized by physical symptoms that have no apparent physical cause. While potentially difficult to diagnose, conversion disorder is readily treatable.
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By Rebecca J. Frey Ph.D.The Gale Group Inc., Gale.. Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders, 2003more » ...
Somatoform Disorders
Somatization Disorder
Conversion Disorder
Pain Disorder
Undifferentiated Somatoform disorder
Hypochondriasis ...
Somatoform Disorders such as hypochondriasis and conversion disorder involve the occurrence of physical symptoms suggestive of a medical problem, in the absence actual medical problems that could account for the symptoms. More...
Because somatoform disorders are usually precipitated or exacerbated by emotional stressors and anxiety, there are a number of natural herbal and homeopathic remedies that may be beneficial in treating these underlying problems.
Purcell TB. Somatoform Disorders. In: Marx J, ed. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2006:chap 111.
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Conversion disorder is one of several types of somatoform disorders, in which signs and symptoms create the appearance of a medical illness that has other no medical explanation.
Factitious disorders are similar to another group of mental disorders called somatoform disorders, which also involve the presence of symptoms that are not due to actual physical or mental illnesses.
Functional somatic symptoms and somatoform disorders. In: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M, Biederman J, Rauch SL, eds. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier;2008:chap 24.
Martin RL and Yutzy SH.(1996) Somatoform Disorders. In: Synopsis of Psychiatry pages 547-572. Edited by Hales RH and Yudofsky SC. , Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.
F40-F48 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders
F50-F59 Behavioural syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors
F60-F69 Disorders of adult personality and behaviour
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pseudocyesis Included in DSM-IV as one of the somatoform disorders. It is characterized by a false belief of being pregnant and by the occurrence of signs of being pregnant, such as abdominal enlargement, breast engorgement, and labor pains.
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(Also Called 'BDD (Body Dysmorphic Disorder)', 'Body Image Problems', 'Somatoform Disorders')
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
This type of pain can be categorized in terms of defined somatoform disorders (eg, chronic pain disorders, somatization disorders, hypochondriasis—see Somatoform and Factitious Disorders) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...
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Hypochondriasis and hysteria (now generally known as conversion disorder) are classified today as somatoform disorders, and involve physical symptoms of psychological distress.
 See also: Somatoform disorder, Symptom, Anxiety, Stress, Depression
  
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