Explore: Somatization

to seek medical help for them. The term somatization was introduced by Wilhelm Stekel in 1924. Somatization is a worldwide phenomenon, with chronic cases

disorder, also known as somatoform disorder or somatization disorder, is a mental disorder of chronic somatization. One or more chronic physical symptoms coincide

PMID 17639308. S2CID 35026784. Tomasson K, Kent D, Coryell W (1991). "Somatization and conversion disorders: comorbidity and demographics at presentation"

separate from similar forms of excessive illness behaviour, such as somatization disorder, wherein symptoms have a psychological cause but are genuinely

systems. What Briquet described became known as Briquet's syndrome, or Somatization disorders, in 1971. Over a ten-year period, Briquet conducted 430 case

neurasthenia as a "biculturally patterned illness experience (a special form of somatization), related to depression or other diseases or to culturally sanctioned

insecure attachment and a childhood history of trauma are associated with somatization. Hurst, Andrea (2008). "7 The Lacanian Real". Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan:

sensory-integration difficulties; increased medical problems or even somatization Affect or emotional regulation – poor affect regulation, difficulty identifying

clinical depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), phobias, and somatization disorder, panic disorder are the most common accompanying conditions

Hypochondriasis Mass psychogenic illness Nosophobia Psychogenic pain Somatization disorder Physiological and physical behavior Eating Anorexia nervosa