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Factitious Disorders With Predominantly Psychological Signs and Symptoms
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Clinical Findings
Patients with factitious psychological symptoms present a diagnostic challenge to psychiatrists. These individuals may feign psychological symptoms of any psychiatric disorder. Snowdon et al. (1978)…

Systems Interventions and Ethical Considerations
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

The above treatment approaches are aimed at the factitious disorder patient. In the broader context, it is also important to include the system treating the patient in any therapeutic interventions. Once a…

Factitious Disorders Treatment
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Early Approaches
The treatment of factitious physical disorders has developed significantly over the past several decades. Shortly after Asher identified the Munchausen syndrome in the early 1950s, other physicians began to report numerous…

Factitious Disorders and Malingering
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Factitious Disorders and Malingering

Introduction
Factitious Disorders With Predominantly Physical Signs and Symptoms
- Clinical Findings
- Epidemiology
- Factitious Disorders With Predominantly Physical Signs and Symptoms
  • Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06
  
  Clinical Findings
  Physical factitious disorders can take many forms, limited only by human imagination. Individuals have been known to create signs or symptoms of virtually every disease…
  
  Hypochondriasis - General Guidelines for Treatment
  • Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06
  
  Whether hypochondriasis is treated through educational, cognitive-behavioral, psychopharmacological, or psychodynamic means, clinical experience suggests that all treatments benefit from a salubrious patient-physician relationship. Therefore, I conclude this section with several recommendations…
  
  Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  • Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06
  
  Bodies are not perfect. But the extent to which individuals attend to their own perceived imperfections varies greatly. The variability of this focused attention on specific aspects of the body depends on many factors…
  
  Resistance to Psychiatric Referral
  • Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06
  
  The reluctance of somatizing patients to accept psychiatric referral and treatment is familiar to both psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrist physicians and often is a concomitant of frustrating interactions for both patients and physicians (Lin…
  
  Hypochondriasis
  • Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06
  
  Classification and Description
  Rational treatment in medicine relies on accuracy of diagnosis. Without definitive abnormal anatomic or physiological findings, physicians are generally inclined to doubt the presence of disease. For centuries, a wide variety…
  
  Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  • Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06
  Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  
  Introduction
  Hypochondriasis
  Classification and Description
  Phenomenology of the Patient-Physician Relationship in Hypochondriasis…
  Management of Pain in Special Patient Populations
  • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06
  
  Patients Involved in Litigation or Workers’ Compensation Systems
  
  Acute and chronic pain frequently develop following some form of injury that becomes a focus for compensation or litigation. A concern shared…
  
  Psychotherapeutic Management of Chronic Pain
  • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06
  
  Freud regarded pain as a common conversion symptom, although he thought that the pains encountered in hysteria were originally somatic in origin. Although the specific pains were not created by the symbolization…
  
  Pain and Depression
  • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06
  
  Prevalence rates of depression among patients in pain clinics have varied widely depending on the method of assessment and the population assessed. Rates as low as 10% and as high as 100% have been…
  
  Management of Chronic Pain
  • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06
  
  Because chronic pain often has multiple causes or contributing factors, it often does not respond to either purely somatic or purely psychological modes of treatment. Persistent pain can set a vicious cycle of…
  
  Acute Versus Chronic Pain
  • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06
  
  Central to the modern conceptualization of persistent clinical pain is the distinction between acute and chronic pain. Acute pain is caused by incomplete healing of tissue. It is primarily nociceptive. The first priority…
  
  Assessment of the Patient With Pain
  • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06
  
  When a patient presents with pain, it is important that physicians and other health care professionals accept the reality of the pain for the patient. Chemically dependent individuals may feign pain…
  
  Pain Disorder in DSM-IV
  • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06
  
  The primary diagnostic category addressing pain in DSM-IV is simply called “pain disorder.” The diagnostic criteria for pain disorder, including its subtypes, are presented in
  Table 60-1.
  
  This…
  
  Pain Disorders
  • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06
  Pain Disorders
  
  Introduction
  Pain Disorder in DSM-IV
  Assessment of the Patient With Pain
  Acute Versus Chronic Pain
  
  Clozaril useful as second schizophrenia drug
  • Schizophrenia News • Apr 14 06
  
  For patients with schizophrenia who do not respond to an initial trial with an antipsychotic drug, clozapine (Clozaril) appears to be a more effective second treatment than other drugs, investigators report…
  
  Breast implants again linked to suicide risk
  • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06
  
  A new study adds to evidence that while women with breast implants are not at greater risk of breast cancer, they do seem to have an elevated rate of suicide.
  …
  
  Stress-induced, high levels of corticotropin-releasing factor might be responsible for binge behavio
  • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06
  
  Stress-induced, high levels of corticotropin-releasing factor might be responsible for binge behaviour and addiction
  
  Stressed individuals might be particularly prone to binge eating or drug…
  
  NAPHS Annual Survey Tracks Behavioral Treatment Trends
  • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06
  
  Behavioral healthcare systems are playing a major role in responding to the needs of the millions of Americans of all ages who experience psychiatric and substance use conditions each year,…
  
  We use news to regulate our moods
  • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 12 06
  
  When men and women are angry, they both choose the news media articles they read with the goal of regulating their moods, a new study suggests.
  
  But, in some circumstances,…
  
  Narcissistic Personality Disorder Phenomenology and Diagnosis
  • Narcissistic Personality Disorder • Apr 11 06
  
  The challenge of understanding and treating narcissistic personality disorder has been compounded by the multiple, wide-ranging, and often ambiguous meanings of the terms narcissism and narcissistic pathology. As Cooper has written,…
  
  Dependent Personality Disorder
  • Dependent Personality Disorder • Apr 11 06
  
  Dependent Personality Disorder
  
  Introduction
  Presenting Complaints
  Behaviors
  Cognitions
  Psychodynamics and…
  
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Factitious Disorders With Predominantly Psychological Signs and Symptoms
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Systems Interventions and Ethical Considerations
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Factitious Disorders Treatment
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Factitious Disorders and Malingering
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Factitious Disorders With Predominantly Physical Signs and Symptoms
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Hypochondriasis - General Guidelines for Treatment
• Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Resistance to Psychiatric Referral
• Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Hypochondriasis
• Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Management of Pain in Special Patient Populations
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Psychotherapeutic Management of Chronic Pain
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Pain and Depression
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Management of Chronic Pain
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Acute Versus Chronic Pain
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Assessment of the Patient With Pain
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Pain Disorder in DSM-IV
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Pain Disorders
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Clozaril useful as second schizophrenia drug
• Schizophrenia News • Apr 14 06

Breast implants again linked to suicide risk
• Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06

Stress-induced, high levels of corticotropin-releasing factor might be responsible for binge behavio
• Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06

NAPHS Annual Survey Tracks Behavioral Treatment Trends
• Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06

We use news to regulate our moods
• Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 12 06

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Phenomenology and Diagnosis
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder • Apr 11 06

Dependent Personality Disorder
• Dependent Personality Disorder • Apr 11 06

Factitious Disorders With Predominantly Psychological Signs and Symptoms • Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Systems Interventions and Ethical Considerations • Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Factitious Disorders Treatment • Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Factitious Disorders With Predominantly Physical Signs and Symptoms • Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Hypochondriasis - General Guidelines for Treatment • Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Resistance to Psychiatric Referral • Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Hypochondriasis • Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Management of Pain in Special Patient Populations • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Psychotherapeutic Management of Chronic Pain • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Pain and Depression • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Management of Chronic Pain • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Acute Versus Chronic Pain • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Assessment of the Patient With Pain • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Pain Disorder in DSM-IV • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Pain Disorders • Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Clozaril useful as second schizophrenia drug • Schizophrenia News • Apr 14 06

Breast implants again linked to suicide risk • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06

Stress-induced, high levels of corticotropin-releasing factor might be responsible for binge behavio • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06

NAPHS Annual Survey Tracks Behavioral Treatment Trends • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06

We use news to regulate our moods • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 12 06

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Phenomenology and Diagnosis • Narcissistic Personality Disorder • Apr 11 06

Dependent Personality Disorder • Dependent Personality Disorder • Apr 11 06

Factitious Disorders With Predominantly Psychological Signs and Symptoms
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Systems Interventions and Ethical Considerations
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Factitious Disorders Treatment
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Factitious Disorders and Malingering
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Factitious Disorders With Predominantly Physical Signs and Symptoms
• Factitious Disorders and Malingering • Apr 15 06

Hypochondriasis - General Guidelines for Treatment
• Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Resistance to Psychiatric Referral
• Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Hypochondriasis
• Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• Hypochondriasis and Body Dysmorphic Disorder • Apr 15 06

Management of Pain in Special Patient Populations
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Psychotherapeutic Management of Chronic Pain
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Pain and Depression
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Management of Chronic Pain
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Acute Versus Chronic Pain
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Assessment of the Patient With Pain
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Pain Disorder in DSM-IV
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Pain Disorders
• Pain Disorders • Apr 15 06

Clozaril useful as second schizophrenia drug
• Schizophrenia News • Apr 14 06

Breast implants again linked to suicide risk
• Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06

Stress-induced, high levels of corticotropin-releasing factor might be responsible for binge behavio
• Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06

NAPHS Annual Survey Tracks Behavioral Treatment Trends
• Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 13 06

We use news to regulate our moods
• Mental health and Psychiatry news • Apr 12 06

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Phenomenology and Diagnosis
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder • Apr 11 06

Dependent Personality Disorder
• Dependent Personality Disorder • Apr 11 06