Relationships between psychosocial distress and
somatic disorders
- Hysteria -
intolerable psychological experiences are
"converted" into physical symptoms
- Briquet's syndrome -
"chronic polysymptomatic hysteria"
- Somatisation disorder -
"the expression of personal and social
distress in an idiom of bodily complaints with medical help
seeking"
- Secondary somatic symptoms -
may form part of symptomatology in
patients with underlying psychiatric illness
- Hypochondriasis -
unjustified anxiety regarding possibility of
serious illness
- Dysmorphobia, hypochondriacal and somatic delusions -
may form part of major mental illness or occur as
an isolated syndrome
- Munchausen's syndrome -
repeated presentation of factitious symptoms
- Psychosomatic disease -
end-organ pathology due to or exacerbated
by psychosocial factors
- Primary organic pathology -
psychological distress may be
reactive to or intrinsic to physical disease
- Iatrogenic pathology -
medical interventions elicited may themselves
produce organic disease