2021-10-18 - MBH-CRG Meeting

Review high level organization of somatic (medical) findings modeled as having mental (psychological) etiological components 

Four major classes of concepts discussed in previous calls:

Fabrication of symptoms with intention to fabricate

• Simulation of physical illness (finding)
• Factitious disorder (disorder)
• Malingering (finding)
• Feigning of symptoms (finding)

Fabrication of exaggeration of symptoms without intention or awareness that one is fabricating

• Hysterical simulation of disease (finding)
• Compensation neurosis (disorder)

Genuine, phenomenological experience of symptoms with no medical explanation for symptom (or severity of symptom) despite multiple tests

• Somatoform disorder (disorder)
• Illness anxiety disorder (disorder)
• Psychosomatic factor in physical condition (finding)
• Psychophysiologic disorder (finding)

Symptom or illness explicitly defined as having a mental (psychological) etiology

• Somatic hallucination (finding)