| A | B |
|---|
| hypochondriasis | persistent abnormal anxiety that one has a disease although medical evidence has proven otherwise |
| hysteria | nervous disorder marked by ineffective emotional control |
| la belle indifference | attitude demonstrating little anxiety or concern over the implications of one's symptoms |
| Munchausen syndrome | deliberate faking of an illness for attention |
| primary gain | psychologic relief that is felt when anxiety is converted into physical symptoms of a disorder |
| pseudoneurologic/somatoform | symptoms that involve false voluntary motor or sensory functioning seen in conversion disorder |
| psychophysiologic | symptoms that cannot be explained by diagnostic findings & cannot be attributed to a medical condition |
| secondary gain | attention received from a physician or family member when focus of anxiety is converted to a physical problem |
| soma | Greek work that refers to the body |
| somatization | predictable syndrome of physical complaints & symptoms that are expressed as a result of psychologic stress |
