2021-10-18 - MBH-CRG Meeting

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Review high level organization of somatic (medical) findings modeled as having mental (psychological) etiological components 

Piper Ranallo PhD Elaine Wooler

Four major classes of concepts discussed in previous calls:

Fabrication of symptoms with intention to fabricate

• Simulation of physical illness (finding)

• Factitious disorder (disorder)

• Malingering (finding)

• Feigning of symptoms (finding)

Fabrication of exaggeration of symptoms without intention or awareness that one is fabricating

• Hysterical simulation of disease (finding)

• Compensation neurosis (disorder)

Genuine, phenomenological experience of symptoms with no medical explanation for symptom (or severity of symptom) despite multiple tests

• Somatoform disorder (disorder)

• Illness anxiety disorder (disorder)

• Psychosomatic factor in physical condition (finding)

• Psychophysiologic disorder (finding)

Symptom or illness explicitly defined as having a mental (psychological) etiology

• Somatic hallucination (finding)

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Review concepts related to somatic (medical) findings modeled in terms of fear or phobia

Piper Ranallo PhD Elaine Wooler