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10/18/2021
Review high level organization of somatic (medical) findings modeled as having mental (psychological) etiological components
Piper Allyn Ranallo Elaine Wooler
Four major classes of concepts discussed in previous calls:
Fabrication of symptoms with intention to fabricate
Fabrication of exaggeration of symptoms without intention or awareness that one is fabricating
Genuine, phenomenological experience of symptoms with no medical explanation for symptom (or severity of symptom) despite multiple tests
Symptom or illness explicitly defined as having a mental (psychological) etiology