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| a disorder characterized by disruption, dissociation of identity, memory, or consciousness |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| a dissociative disorder in which a person has two or more distinct, or alter, personalities |
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| False. The term, split personality, refers to multiple personality, not schizophrenia. |
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| The term, split personality, refers to schizophrenia. |
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| False. Men with the disorder typically show about 8 alternate personalities, where women average 15 or more. |
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| People with multiple personalities typically have two or three different personalities. |
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| a dissociative disorder in which a person experiences memory loss without any identifiable organic cause. |
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| a dissociative disorder in which one suddenly flees from one's life situation, travels to a new location, assumes a new identity, and has amnesia for personal material |
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| feelings of unreality or detachment from one's self or one's body |
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| a sense of unreality about the outside world |
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| False. About half of all adults, according to the DSM, at some time experience an episode of depersonalization in which they feel detached from their own bodies or mental processes. |
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| Very few of us have episodes in which we feel strangely detached from our own bodies or though processes. |
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| depersonalization disorder |
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| a dissociative disorder characterized by persistant or recurrent episodes of depersonalization |
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| False. The great majority of people with multiple personalities report experiencing severe physical or sexual abuse during childhood. |
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| Most people with multiple personalities had normal and uneventful childhoods. |
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| disorders characterized by complaints of physical problems or symptoms that cannot be explained by physical causes |
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| faking illness in order to avoid work or duty |
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| a disorder characterized by intentional fabrication of psychological or physical symptoms for no apparent gain |
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| a type of factitious disorder characterized by the fabrications of medical symptoms |
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| a somatoform disorder characterized by loss or impairment of physical function in the absence of any apparent organic cause |
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| Some people lose all feeling in their hands or legs, although nothing is medically wrong with them. |
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| a somatoform disorder characterized by misinterpretation of physical symptoms as signs of underlying serious disease |
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| Some people show up repeatedly at hospital emergency rooms, faking illness and seeking treatment for no apparent reason. |
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| body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) |
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| a somatoform disorder characterized by preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated physical defect in appearance |
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| a somatoform disorder in which psychological factors are presumed to play a significant role in the development, severity, or course of chronic pain |
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| a somatoform disorder characterized by repeated multiple complaints that cannot be explained by physical causes |
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| a culture-bound disorder, found primarily in China, in which people fear that their genitals are shrinking and retracting into their bodies |
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| Some men have a psychological disorder characterized by the fear of the penis shrinking and retracting into the body. |
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| a culture-bound disorder, found primarily among Asian Indian males, characterized by excessive fears over the loss of seminal fluid |
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| False. The term is derived from hystera, the Greek word for uterus. |
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| The term, hysteria, derives from the Greek word for testicle. |
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| a culture-bound syndrome occurring primarily in southeast Asian and Pacific Island cultures that describes a trancelike state in which a person suddenly becomes highly excited and violently attacks other people or destroys objects |
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| show a remarkable indifference to their symptoms |
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