Discussion
Joseph displays symptoms of acute pain without any identifiable biological symptoms. The extensive body check-up found no physical cause of the pain. Joseph is likely to suffer from which of the following disorders?
Answer: D
Joseph is likely to suffer from a somatoform disorder, in which a person has physical complaints such as pain without any physical cause found, because the problem is psychological in origin. 'Somato-deficiency disorder' and 'pseudo-disease disorder' are not recognised diagnoses, and a cognitive disorder concerns thinking and memory, not bodily complaints.
Somatoform disorders include somatisation disorder, conversion disorder, hypochondriasis and pain disorder, and Joseph's case is the last of these.
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