PART D – Psychological consequences of torture on individuals
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Psychalgia
Psychogenic:
– backache
– headache
Somatoform pain disorder
Excludes:
backache NOS ( M54.9 )
pain:
– NOS ( R52.9 )
– acute ( R52.0 )
– chronic ( R52.2 )
– intractable ( R52.1 )
tension headache ( G44.2 )
Under F45 Somatoform disorders see also:
F45.1 Undifferentiated somatoform disorder
F45.2 Hypocondriacal disorder
F45.3 Somatoform autonomic dysfunction
F45.8 Other somatoform disorders
Under “Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders (F40-F48)” see also:
F40 Phobic anxiety disorders
F41 Other anxiety disorders
F41.0 Panic disorder (episodic paroxysmal anxiety)
F41.1 Generalized anxiety disorder
F41.2 Mixed anxiety and depressive disorder
F41.3 Other mixed anxiety disorders
F41.8 Other specified anxiety disorders
F41.9 Anxiety disorder, unspecified
F42 Obsessive-compulsive disorder
DISORDERS OF ADULT PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOUR (F60-F69)
F62 Enduring personality changes, not attributable to brain damage and
disease
Disorders of adult personality and behaviour that have developed in persons with no previous personality disorder following exposure to catastrophic or excessive prolonged stress, or
following a severe psychiatric illness. These diagnoses should be made only when there is
evidence of a definite and enduring change in a person’s pattern of perceiving, relating to,
or thinking about the environment and himself or herself. The personality change should be
significant and be associated with inflexible and maladaptive behaviour not present before
the pathogenic experience. The change should not be a direct manifestation of another mental
disorder or a residual symptom of any antecedent mental disorder.
Excludes:
personality and behavioural disorder due to brain disease, damage and
dysfunction ( F07.- )
F62.0 Enduring personality change after catastrophic experience
Enduring personality change, present for at least two years, following exposure to catastrophic
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