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Unit 8 – Clinical Psychology
Topic 8.5
Using psychoanalytic theory as reference point, what would likely be considered the root cause behind somatic symptom disorder?
A learned response to certain stimuli causing physical symptoms
Unresolved unconscious conflicts or repressed trauma manifesting as physical symptoms
Lack of personal fulfillment causing sublimation into physical symptoms
Disordered thinking patterns leading to perceived physical symptoms
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AP Psychology - 8.5 Trauma- and Stressor Related, Dissociative, and Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
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