Notes on Somatoform Disorders (Prepared By: Prince Rener V.

Pera, RN)
 Clinical Features of Somatoform Disorders
Demographic Psychological
and Processes Motivation
Clinical Epidemiological Diagnostic Management Associated Primary Differential Contributing to for Symptom
Diagnosis Presentation Features Features Strategy Prognosis Disturbances Presentation Symptoms Production
Somatization Polysymptomatic Young age Review of Therapeutic Poor to fair Histrionic Physical disease Unconscious Unconscious
disorder Recurrent and Female systems alliance personality Depression Cultural and psychological
chronic predominance profusely Regular disorder developmental factors
Sickly by history 20 to 1 positive appointments Antisocial
Familial pattern Multiple Crisis intervention personality
5%-10% clinical disorder
incidence in contacts Alcohol and
primary care Polysurgical other
populations substance
abuse
Many life
problems
Conversion
disorder
Conversion Monosymptomatic Highly prevalent Simulation Suggestion and Excellent Alcohol and Depression Unconscious Unconscious
disorder Mostly acute Female incompatible persuasion except in other Schizophrenia Psychological psychological
Simulates disease predominance with known Multiple chronic substance Neurological stress or factors
Young age physiological techniques conversion dependence disease conflict may be
Rural and low mechanisms disorder Antisocial present
social class or anatomy personality
Little-educated disorder
and Somatization
psychologically disorder
unsophisticated Histrionic
personality
disorder
Hypochondriasis Disease concern or Previous Disease Document Fair to Obsessive- Depression Unconscious Unconscious
preoccupation physical disease conviction symptoms good compulsive Physical disease Stress psychological
Middle or old amplifies Psychosocial Waxes and personality Personality disorder bereavement factors
age symptoms review wanes disorder Delusional disorder Developmental
Male-female Obsessional Psychotherapeutic Depressive factors
ratio equal and anxiety
disorders
Body Subjective feelings Adolescence or Pervasive Therapeutic Guarded Anorexia Delusional disorder Unconscious Unconscious
dysmorphic of ugliness or young adult bodily alliance nervosa Depressive Self-esteem psychological
disorder concern with body Female concerns Stress Psychosocial disorders factors factors
defect predominance management distress Somatization