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The term "psychogenic pain" has begun to fall out of relevance in the scientific community, due to its implication that the pain is entirely psychological in origin and thus not "real". [11] The change in preferred nomenclature can be traced to 1994 when the DSM-IV removed the term in favor of the more holistic " Pain Disorder " section. [ 4 ]
Dissociative amnesia is a common fictional plot device in many films, books and other media. Examples include William Shakespeare's King Lear, who experienced amnesia and madness following a betrayal by his daughters; [27] and the title character Nina in Nicolas Dalayrac's 1786 opera. [27]
Dissociative fugue (/ f juː ɡ / FYOOG), formerly called a fugue state or psychogenic fugue, [1] is a rare psychiatric phenomenon characterized by reversible amnesia for one's identity in conjunction with unexpected wandering or travel.
In real life, a man named John Kapoor founded a company called Insys Therapeutics, which developed a fentanyl spray called Subsys that helped with breakthrough pain.
Tension myositis syndrome (TMS), also known as tension myoneural syndrome or mindbody syndrome, is a name given by John E. Sarno to what he claimed was a condition of psychogenic musculoskeletal and nerve symptoms, most notably back pain.
Writer-director-star Jesse Eisenberg and co-star Kieran Culkin on making a different kind of Holocaust movie, inspired by Eisenberg's family history.
Is Netflix's 'Pain Hustlers,' starring Chris Evans and Emily Blunt, based on a true story? Learn about the real-life pharma scandal that inspired the film.
Classified as a "conversion disorder" by the DSM-IV, a psychogenic disease is a condition in which mental stressors cause physical symptoms matching other disorders. The manifestation of physical symptoms without biologically identifiable cause results from disruptions in normal brain function due to psychological stress.