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CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, 2e
| Section II. Psychiatric Disorders in Adults > |
Chapter 22. Somatoform Disorders
Sections: Somatoform Disorders: Introduction, Conversion Disorder, Somatization Disorder & Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder, Hypochondriasis, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Pain Disorder, Somatoform Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.
Topics Discussed: somatoform disorder.
Excerpt:"Patients who somatize psychosocial distress commonly present in medical clinical settings. Approximately 25% of patients in primary care demonstrate some degree of somatization, and at least 10% of medical or surgical patients have no evidence of a disease process. Somatizing patients use a disproportionately large amount of medical services and frustrate their physicians, who often do not recognize the true nature of these patients' underlying problems. Somatizing patients rarely seek help from psychiatrists at their own initiative, and they may resent any implication that their physical distress is related to psychological problems. Despite the psychogenic etiology of their illnesses, these patients continue to seek medical care in nonpsychiatric settings where their somatization is often unrecognized...."
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