Somatoform disorder is a general term for a group of disorders that are among the more common of the neurological disorders. The patient repeatedly seeks medical attention, repeatedly states somatic symptoms to the doctor, constantly asks for medical examinations, ignores the negative results of repeated examinations, even though the doctor repeatedly explains that there is no somatic basis for his or her symptoms; there are also patients who sometimes have some kind of somatic disease, but the somatic disease they suffer from doesn’t explain the nature and degree of his or her symptoms or the patient’s suffering and preoccupation. The causes of somatoform disorders are multilayered. Genetic susceptibility qualities, psychosocial factors such as dysphoria and subconscious gain all play an important role in the development of the disease. Most of the patients have had some kind of pressure or stressful event before the disease. Due to the obstacles in feeling and expressing emotions, the emotions cannot be expressed verbally, so they turn to the “language of the organs” to release them, which manifests itself as various kinds of discomfort in the organs and the body. Somatic symptoms can subconsciously provide two benefits to the patient: one is the relief of emotional conflicts through the catharsis of somatic symptoms; the other is the avoidance of responsibility and the acquisition of care and attention through the role of the disease, although these psychological processes occur unconsciously. It is worth noting that as the results of medical tests often disappoint the patient, the different understanding of symptoms and ineffective treatment between doctor and patient are prone to cause problems in the doctor-patient relationship. In ICD-10, somatoform disorders include five subtypes; four of them are the most predominant. 1. Somatization disorder This type of somatoform disorder is often accompanied by variable symptoms of physical discomfort. These symptoms, in turn, tend to involve any system or organ of the body, most commonly gastrointestinal discomfort (e.g., pain, hiccups, acid reflux, nausea, vomiting, etc.), abnormal skin sensations (e.g., itching, tingling, numbness, aches and pains, etc.), and often marked depression and anxiety. It is often a chronic fluctuating course. 2, hypochondriac with hypochondriac concept as the main clinical manifestation, that is, the persistence of the preoccupation concept, the patient is worried about or believe that they are suffering from a serious physical disease, repeated visits to the doctor, a variety of negative medical tests and the doctor’s explanation, are unable to dispel their doubts. Repeated visits to the doctor, frequent changes of doctors, repeated tests. Accompanied by obvious anxiety and depression, often with a chronic fluctuating course. 3, somatic form of autonomic nervous disorders Patients suffering from this disease often have palpitations, sweating, blushing and other symptoms, often have an indeterminate part of the pain, burning, heaviness, tightness, swelling. Gastrointestinal neurosis and cardiac neurosis are common. Gastrointestinal neurosis often shows “superficial gastritis” in gastroscopy, but the conventional treatment in gastroenterology cannot improve the patient’s symptoms, and cardiac neurosis is characterized by chronic chest tightness, palpitations, and chest pain, but electrocardiograms and even coronary angiograms do not show any problems, so the patients have to move between gastroenterology and cardiology for long periods of time and have to be treated as “bad patients”. The patient has to go to the gastroenterology and cardiology departments for a long time, becoming a “patient who can’t be seen well”. 4.Somatic form of pain disorder is a kind of persistent and severe pain that cannot be reasonably explained by physiological process or physical disorder. Emotional conflicts or psychosocial problems directly lead to the occurrence of pain, after examination did not find the corresponding complaints of somatic lesions. The patient claims that the pain is severe, but may lack those physiologic responses that accompany organic pain. The most frequent complaints of patients with somatoform pain disorders are headache, low back pain and atypical facial pain, which often varies in duration, nature and location. According to statistics, in general hospitals, the “somatization form disorder” accounted for about 20% of outpatients, accounting for 30% of inpatients. Therefore, if the patient has many symptoms, repeated visits to the clinic, and repeated tests with no results, he or she should go to a psychiatrist to have a better chance of getting an effective and accurate diagnosis and treatment.