Chronic somatoform pain disorder is a kind of somatoform disorder in which the leading complaint is the constant, heavy and mentally oppressive pain in any area of ​​the body that lasts more than 6 months and can not be fully explained by a physiological process or somatic disorder. It appears in conjunction with emotional conflict or [...]

Specific (isolated) phobia – the fear of a specific object or action. Phobias are distributed to a variety of situations, such as location next to some animals, heights, thunder, darkness, flying in airplanes, closed spaces, urinating or defecating in public toilets, taking some food, treatment by a dentist, the sight of blood or injury and fear of [...]

Social phobias are characterized by an obsessive fear of attention from the experience of others in a relatively small group of people (as opposed to the crowd), which leads to avoidance of social situations. Unlike most other phobias, social phobias are equally common in both men and women. Social phobias may be isolated, in terms of the [...]

Obsessive-compulsive disorder – obsessive thoughts and (or) actions. (In French and Soviet literature – psychasthenia in German – anankazmy in Anglo-Saxon – obsessive-compulsive disorder).  The main feature is recurrent obsessional thoughts or compulsive actions. Obsessional thoughts are ideas, images or impulses that havestereotyped form again and again come to mind to the patient. They are nearly always painful [...]

Hypochondriacal disorder – one of the most private of psychopathological phenomena, the main feature of which is the constant concern over the possibility of disease in one more heavy and progressive somatic disorder. In contrast with patients with somatisation and undifferentiated somatoform disorders, patients with hypochondriasis are not only burdened by somatic discomfort, but are [...]