‘Pseudoneurological’ symptoms, dissociation and stress-related psychopathology in healthy young adults

BMC Psychiatry

Research Article

Jiri Raboch¹  Petra Selesova¹  Petr Bob¹  Lubomir Kukla² 

[1] Center for Neuropsychiatric Research of Traumatic Stress & Department of Psychiatry, First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, Ke Karlovu 11, 128 00, Prague, Czech Republic;Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic;

关键词: Alexithymia;    Anxiety;    Depression;    Somatoform dissociation;    Stress;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-244X-13-149

 received in 2012-05-28, accepted in 2013-05-21,  发布年份 2013

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundSomatoform dissociation is a specific form of dissociation with somatic manifestations represented in the form of ‘pseudoneurological’ symptoms due to disturbances or alterations of normal integrated functions of consciousness, memory or identity mainly related to trauma and other psychological stressors. With respect to the distinction between psychological and somatoform manifestations of dissociation current data suggest a hypothesis to which extent mild manifestations of ‘pseudoneurological’ symptoms in healthy young population may be linked to stress-related psychopathological symptoms or whether these symptoms more likely could be attributed to unexplained somatic factors.MethodsWith this aim we have assessed the relationship between somatoform dissociation and stress-related psychopathology (i.e. anxiety, depression, symptoms of traumatic stress, alexithymia) in a group of 250 healthy non-psychiatric and non-clinical young adults.ResultsResults of this study show that the symptoms of somatoform dissociation are significantly linked to stress-related psychopathology.ConclusionsFindings of this study show that the ‘pseudoneurological’ symptoms may be linked to stress-related psychopathological processes which indicate that also mild levels of stress may influence somatic feelings and may lead to various somatoform dissociative symptoms.

【 授权许可】

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