Somatic Symptom and Related
Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
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that may even be worth some good-natured jokes, But for a few
individuals, the preoccupation with their health or appearance
becomes so great that st dominates thei lives. Their problems fall
Under the gener heading of somatic symptom disorders. Sond
nanos nd the problems preoecupyng these people sem,
‘be physical disorders. What the somatic symptom dis-
‘orders have in common is that there is an excessive or maladaptive
response to physical symptoms or to associated health concerns
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of neicaly unexplained phys symptoms olde Hastan
etal, 2009; Woolfolk & Allen, 2011), butin some cases the medical
‘cause of the presenting physical symptoms is known but the emo-
these experiences, some people feel as if they are dreaming.
“These mild sensations that most people experience occasionally
are slight alterations, or detachments, in consciousness or identity