... Abstract The term hypochondriasis must be considered, in its historical, medical and sociological context, as a label misused extensively – often as an expression of the physician’s frustration, disappointment and anger when faced with an elusive diagnostic problem. Attempts at refinement...

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... ]. Persistent somatization and hypochondriasis may be conceptualized as forms of abnormal illness behavior where somatic symptoms are affirmed with a motivation predominantly unconscious. The denial of a psychiatric disorder to obtain an employment is an example of illness-denying abnormal illness behavior...

... Abstract There are people who never permit themselves to fall ill. This negative illness is called by the present author: counter-hypochondriasis. Several defense mechanisms in counter-hypochondriasis are described, especially in relation to infantile roots. Pathological health is considered...

... anxiety's main feature is the unfounded fear of having a severe disease even without experiencing specific somatic symptoms (A1), as in hypochondriasis, and/or the presence of common somatic symptoms (A2) - two features that are thought to relate to somatosensory amplification. If the patient does not meet...

... with bizarre presentations, and were often accompanied by catatonic signs (41%). In 77%, they preceded PD motor signs by 6–120 months, and in 86%, they were recurrent at follow-up. In 91%, there was preceding or concomitant hypochondriasis. Global cognitive decline was greater in PD with somatoform disorder...

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... insecurities and fears about physical health and appearance, through hypochondriasis, to an actual psychotic dimension underlying these phenomena, may thus occur on a diagnostic spectrum of considerable width. In no further period of life do physical changes occur as dramatically as in adolescence...

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... of hypochondriasis and its prevalent variant, disease phobia. Both the DSM somatization disorder and undifferentiated somatoform disorder are replaced by the DCPR persistent somatization, conceptualized as a clustering of functional symptoms involving different organ systems [ 58 ]. Conversion may be redefined...

... in women and hypochondriasis in men. Anger, fear, love, or grief could induce symptoms, which included copious urine discharge after a ‘fit', visceral, muscular, and articular pains, and clavus hystericus (the feeling of a nail driven through the skull). Sydenham expressed his ideas in his epistolary...

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