Author Question: A flippant lack of concern about symptoms, called la belle indifference, is sometimes observed in ... (Read 41 times)

Collmarie · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

A flippant lack of concern about symptoms, called la belle indifference, is sometimes observed in patients with

a. pain disorder.
b. schizophrenia.
c. somatic symptom disorder.
d. psychosomatic illness.

Question 2

If a patient with somatic symptom disorder is described as presenting symptoms in a histrionic manner what has the clinician concluded?

a. The physical symptoms do not make anatomical sense.
b. The patient's report is filled with suspicious gaps of memory.
c. The patient's symptoms are consistent with la belle indifference.
d. The symptoms were presented in a vague but seductive and dramatic manner.