Somatoform disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Somatoform disorder (also known as Briquet's syndrome ) is a mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms that mimic physical disease or injury for which there is no identifiable physical cau...
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Information on somatoform disorder from the American Academy of Family Physicians. ... Somatoform disorder is a condition in which the physical pain and symptoms a person feels are related to psychological factors. These symptoms can't be traced to a specific physical cause. In people who have somatoform disorder,
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Somatoform disorder is also known as briquet’s syndrome, Pain disorder, or Body dysmorphic disorder. This disorder has a variety of mental health disorders in which the main cause is not a specific physical symptom but it manifests itself as a physical disorder.
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Somatoform disorder refers to what many people used to call a psychosomatic disorder. In somatoform disorders, the physical symptoms cannot be fully explained by any underlying physical disorder. People with a somatoform disorder are not faking.
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Overview: Somatoform disorders represent a group of disorders characterized by physical symptoms suggesting a medical disorder. However, somatoform disorders represent a psychiatric condition because the physical symptoms present in the disorder cannot be fully explained by a ... ... In most somatoform disorder categories,
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) classifies somatoform disorders in the following diagnoses: somatization disorder, undifferentiated somatoform disorder, somatoform disorder not otherwise specified (NOS), conversion disorder, pain disorder, body dysmorphic disorder,
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When an individual has vague, multiple or nonresolving physical complaints in the absence (or in excess of) diagnostic findings, then a somatoform disorder is suspected. A psychological consultation is then needed to confirm the existence of a somatoform disorder.
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Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which emotional distress or unconscious conflict are expressed through physical symptoms. ... Conversion disorder is one of several types of somatoform disorders in which psychological problems produce physical symptoms.
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