Psychiatry & Psychosomatic Medicine

Somatic Symptom Disorder

 A Somatic Symptom disorder, formerly known as a Somatoform disorder, it  is a mental disorder which manifests as physical symptoms that suggest illness or injury, but which cannot be explained fully by a general medical condition or by direct effect of a substance, and are not attributable to another mental disorder Example: Panic Disorder. Some of the Somatic Disorders, as a group, are included in a number of diagnostic schemes of mental illness, including the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.