PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Walter Bromberg
TI  - Functionalism: The Penumbra of Psychiatric Diagnoses
DP  - 1988 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 259--268
VI  - 16
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/16/3/259.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/16/3/259.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1988 Sep 01; 16
AB  - Functionalism, as generally understood, is not included in DSM-III-R. It differs from somatization and hysteria. Analysis of cases of functional overlay indicates the presence of a fixed attitude—depending on body-image distortion, feelings of injustice toward the existing medicolegal methodology, social and economic impairment, anger against legal delays, and a conviction of the futility of treatment or of attempts at rehabilitation. It should be included in DSM-IV as a subset under posttraumatic stress disorder.