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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by alexis[/i] [br]DSM-V note: classification of somatic illnesses to include factitious disorders (inc. Munchausen and Munchausen by proxy) based on presumed shared motivation In the current formulation, somataform and factitious disorders are to be grouped together because they "all involve presentation of physical symptoms and/or concern about medical illness". http://www.dsm5.org/proposedrevision/Pages/SomaticSymptomDisorders.aspx Or as this author argues, "Factitious and somatoform-disorder patients are alike in that they both organize their lives around seeking medical services in spite of having primarily a psychiatric condition." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18621932 Conceptually there's a serious logical flaw here, in that factitious disorders by definition cannot be somatic. This could, however, be corrected by a change in the title of the parent group. I'm not sure what category this might be (or how useful) - perhaps, based on the justifications, they are looking for something like a "Sickness Seeking Disorders" group. This would, however, leave several of the other categories out of place, and mis-classify a large number of those with somatic symptoms. More personally serious to those of us here, is that people suffering with pychophysiologic disorders are essentially to be lumped with those with Munchausen syndrome, as well as Munchausen by proxy. The implications, I believe, in the public sphere could be very damaging. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.