conditioning involving physical complaints or disabilities without the corresponding physical pathology.
Syndromes characterized by prominent somatic (bodily) symptoms as their central problem.
Disorders in which physical symptoms suggest a physical problem but have no known physiological cause; they are therefore believed to be linked to psychological conflicts and needs but not voluntarily assumed. Examples are somatization disorder (Briquet's syndrome), conversion disorder, pain disorder, hypochondriasis.
A group of psychiatric disorders characterized by prominent physical complaints in the absence of a medical disorder that can sufficiently explain them. According to the DSM-IV, the somatoform disorders include somatization disorder, conversion disorder, pain disorder, hypochondriasis, body dysmorphic disorder, and undifferentiated somatoform disorder.
A group of disorders in which physical symptoms suggesting physical disorder predominate and in which there is strong evidence for a psychologic causation. These disorders include somatization disorder, conversion disorder, psychogenic pain disorder, and hypochondriasis.
The generic term for mental disorders in which bodily symptoms predominate despite the absence of any known physical cause; included are conversion disorder, hypochondriasis, somatization disorder, and somatoform pain disorder.