Psychosomatic and Somatoform Disorders

Somatic

Relating to or affecting the body

Somatoform Disorders

Disorders in which there is an apparent physical illness for which there is no organic basis

Psychosomatic Disorder

A disorder in which there is real physical illness that is largely caused by physiological factors

Somatization Disorder

A somatoform disorder characterized by recurrent vague somatic complaints without physical cause

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

A somatoform disorder in which a person becomes so preoccupied with his or her imagined ugliness that normal life is impossible

Hypochondriasis

A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets insignificant symptoms as signs of serious illness in the absence of any organic evidence of such illness

Conversion Disorders

Somatoform disorders in which a dramatic specific disability has no physical cause but instead seems related to psychologic problems