Bob
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I'd like to compile a brief list of synonyms for 'psychosomatic' illness that has been used to describe ME. And any similar terminology. I'm always forgetting the terminology that they use.
I believe that the current favoured terminology is "functional somatic syndrome", but it changes regularly.
Psychosomatic diagnoses - list of similar terminology (Alphabetical order):
Abnormal illness behaviour
Affective spectrum dysorder
Behavioural disorder
Bodily distress syndrome (BDS)
Chronic multi-symptom illness
Conversion disorder
False illness beliefs
Functional neurological deficit
Functional Neurological Disorder
Functional disorder
Functional somatic disorder
Functional somatic syndrome
Hypochondria / Hypochondriasis
Hysteria / Mass hysteria
Medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness
Medically unexplained disorders
Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS)
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)
Neurasthenia
Physical symptom disorder
Persistant Physical Symptoms
Persistent unexplained physical symptoms (PUPS)
Psychogenic illness / Mass psychogenic illness
Psychosomatic illness.
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Somatization disorder
Somatisation of mental illness/anxiety.
Somatoform disorder
Other terminology that has been inappropriately used to describe ME patients:
All in the mind
Factitious disorder
Malingering
Have I missed anything? Have I included any that shouldn't be in the list?
Many of them have a Wikipedia entry.
And here's Wessely and White's delightful paper on the subject of the "functional somatic syndrome":
There is only one functional somatic syndrome
The British Journal of Psychiatry (2004)185: 95-96
doi:10.1192/bjp.185.2.95
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/185/2/95.full
And (via Tom Kindlon's Twitter account) here's what UK medical students are currently being taught about functional disorders, including CFS, in the 8th edition (2012) of the Kumar & Clark textbook, "Clinical Medicine":
https://www.inkling.com/read/kumar-...ne-8th/chapter-23/functional-or-psychosomatic
I believe that the current favoured terminology is "functional somatic syndrome", but it changes regularly.
Psychosomatic diagnoses - list of similar terminology (Alphabetical order):
Abnormal illness behaviour
Affective spectrum dysorder
Behavioural disorder
Bodily distress syndrome (BDS)
Chronic multi-symptom illness
Conversion disorder
False illness beliefs
Functional neurological deficit
Functional Neurological Disorder
Functional disorder
Functional somatic disorder
Functional somatic syndrome
Hypochondria / Hypochondriasis
Hysteria / Mass hysteria
Medically unexplained chronic multisymptom illness
Medically unexplained disorders
Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS)
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)
Neurasthenia
Physical symptom disorder
Persistant Physical Symptoms
Persistent unexplained physical symptoms (PUPS)
Psychogenic illness / Mass psychogenic illness
Psychosomatic illness.
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Somatization disorder
Somatisation of mental illness/anxiety.
Somatoform disorder
Other terminology that has been inappropriately used to describe ME patients:
All in the mind
Factitious disorder
Malingering
Have I missed anything? Have I included any that shouldn't be in the list?
Many of them have a Wikipedia entry.
And here's Wessely and White's delightful paper on the subject of the "functional somatic syndrome":
There is only one functional somatic syndrome
The British Journal of Psychiatry (2004)185: 95-96
doi:10.1192/bjp.185.2.95
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/185/2/95.full
And (via Tom Kindlon's Twitter account) here's what UK medical students are currently being taught about functional disorders, including CFS, in the 8th edition (2012) of the Kumar & Clark textbook, "Clinical Medicine":
https://www.inkling.com/read/kumar-...ne-8th/chapter-23/functional-or-psychosomatic
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