Somatic Symptoms and Related Disorders — Clinical Psychiatry

Psychiatry · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Análisis exhaustivo, fisiopatológico, psicodinámico y farmacoterapéutico del espectro de trastornos de somatización. Transición de la dualidad cartesiana mente-cuerpo a la medicina de sistemas integrada.

What it covers

1. Somatic Symptoms and Related Disorders
2. Historical Evolution and Epistemology
3. · Hysteria at the Salpêtrière and the Birth of Psychoanalysis
4. · Overcoming Dualism and Medical Iatrogenesis
5. Comparative Classification: DSM-5-TR vs. ICD-11
6. · The Diagnostic Transition: The End of DSM-IV Rigidity
7. Neurobiology of Somatization
8. · The Interoception Pathway and Pain Coding
9. · The Default Mode Network and Somatic Rumination
10. · Neurotransmitters and the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis
11. Psychodynamic and Psychological Models
12. · Alexithymia and Symbolization Deficit
13. · The Theory of Attachment and Somatic Symptoms as a Cry for Help
14. Sociocultural and Immunological Factors
15. · Languages of Distress and Cultural Stigma
16. · The Immunopsychiatry Connection: Cytokines and "Sickness Behavior"
17. Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD)
18. · Semiology and Common Clinical Presentations
19. · Severity Levels and Clinical Specifiers
20. Illness Anxiety Disorder (SAD)
21. · Conceptual Differentiation: TAE vs. TSS
22. Conversion Disorder (SNDF)
23. · The Revolution of Functional Neurology: The Turn of the Exclusion Diagnosis
24. Psychological Factors Affecting Other Medical Illnesses
25. · Mechanisms of Direct Pathophysiological Influence
26. Factitious and Malingering Disorder
27. · Self-Imposed Factitious Disorder (Munchausen Syndrome)
28. · Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (Munchausen by Proxy)
29. · Simulation (Malingering): The Non-Psychiatric Diagnosis
30. Other Specified and Unspecified Somatic Disorders
31. · Pseudocyesis (False Uterine Pregnancy)
32. · Mass Hysteria (Mass Psychogenic Illness)
33. Differential Diagnosis and Comorbidities
34. · The Challenge of Mimic Organic Pathology
35. · Common Psychiatric Comorbidities
36. Evaluation Scales and Biomarkers
37. · Standardized Psychometric Scales
38. · Biomarkers in the Research Horizon
39. Multidisciplinary Treatment
40. · Psychotherapeutic Approach of Choice
41. · Pharmacological Treatment
42. · Intervention Strategy in Primary Care: The Goldberg Guidelines and the BATHE Technique
43. Prognosis, Course and Rehabilitation
44. · Prognosis and Course of the Disease
45. · Particularities in Special Populations
46. · Rehabilitation Medicine in Conversion Disorder and FND