["Body psychosis": an interpretative hypothesis about some psychiatric disorders]. 1996

P Lorenzi, and M Ardito
Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche e Psichiatriche, Università degli Studi, Firenze.

The authors propose to group some clinical entities as Delusional hypochondria, Dysmorphophobia, Nervous Anorexia, under the term of Body Psychosis. These are considered as psychoses endowed in the body (naturally we are speaking not about the anatomical body, but the phenomenological one, the personal experienced body). The specific clinical frame is justified by the following considerations: 1) in a psychopathological light all the disorders imply an altered relationship with the personal experienced body; 2) in a prognostic light the "experienced body" involvement given specific and common features; 3) clinically a one-other manifestation change is always possible; 4) relationally the human contact (and the medical one too) with this kind of patient got very specific features that often provoke dramatic and perverse changes in the same relation, especially in a sadomasochistic sense. The personal nosological frame is stressed within the actual psychiatric diagnostic classification (ICD 10, DSM IV).

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D006998 Hypochondriasis Preoccupation with the fear of having, or the idea that one has, a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms. (APA, DSM-IV) Neurosis, Hypochondriacal,Hypochondriacal Neuroses,Hypochondriacal Neurosis
D011569 Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Standardized procedures utilizing rating scales or interview schedules carried out by health personnel for evaluating the degree of mental illness. Factor Construct Rating Scales (FCRS),Katz Adjustment Scales,Lorr's Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Rating Scale,Wittenborn Scales,Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale,Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview
D001828 Body Image Individuals' concept of their own bodies. Body Identity,Body Representation,Body Schema,Body Images,Body Representations,Body Schemas,Identity, Body,Image, Body,Representation, Body,Schema, Body
D003702 Delusions A false belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that persists despite the facts, and is not considered tenable by one's associates. Delusion
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000856 Anorexia Nervosa An eating disorder that is characterized by the lack or loss of APPETITE, known as ANOREXIA. Other features include excess fear of becoming OVERWEIGHT; BODY IMAGE disturbance; significant WEIGHT LOSS; refusal to maintain minimal normal weight; and AMENORRHEA. This disorder occurs most frequently in adolescent females. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994) Anorexia Nervosas,Nervosa, Anorexia,Nervosas, Anorexia

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