Just watched an interesting video by a psychiatrist who claims that conversion/somatization disorder is a useless diagnosis, because it relies on the assumption that an unknown to the patient internal conflict is the cause of the behavior. As there is no rational path to discover the conflict, then no rational therapy can be pursued. And thus the patient, feeling like (s)he is accused of being irrational, then often stops seeking any treatment at all. He thinks it's better to just look at the spectrum of basic normal treatable symptoms like depression, anxiety, irritability, and things like that, and tackle those symptoms with therapy and/or medications and/or exercises.
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Just watched an interesting video by a psychiatrist who claims that conversion/somatization disorder is a useless diagnosis, because it relies on the assumption that an unknown to the patient internal conflict is the cause of the behavior. As there is no rational path to discover the conflict, then no rational therapy can be pursued. And thus the patient, feeling like (s)he is accused of being irrational, then often stops seeking any treatment at all. He thinks it's better to just look at the spectrum of basic normal treatable symptoms like depression, anxiety, irritability, and things like that, and tackle those symptoms with therapy and/or medications and/or exercises.
January 30, 2015 - 9:02pmThis Comment
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