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Essentials of Abnormal Psychology: Ch 5
Somatoform & Dissociative Disorders
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
11/06/2012

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Somatoform Disorder
Definition
Pathological concern of individuals with the appearance or functioning of their bodies, usually in the absence of any identifiable medical condition.
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Dissociative Disorder
Definition
Disorder in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and feel reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate.
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Hypochondriasis
Definition
involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause.
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Somatization Disorder
Definition
extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident.
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Pain Disorder
Definition
-true pain but for which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity, or maintenance.
- similar to conversion disorder
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Conversion Disorder
Definition
Physical malfunction, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it.
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Malingering
Definition
-deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain.
-closely related to conversion disorder
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Factitious Disorder
Definition
-Nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except, possibly, sympathy and attention.
- similar to conversion disorder
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
Definition
disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance ("imagined ugliness")
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Derealization
Definition
losing a sense of the reality of the external world.
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Depersonalization Disorder
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feelings of depersonalization that are so severe they dominate the individual's life and prevent normal functioning.
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Dissociative Amnesia
Definition
the inability to recall personal information; usually of a stressful or traumatic nature.
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Generalized Amnesia
Definition
Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity.
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Localized/Selective Amnesia
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Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events.
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Dissociative Fugue
Definition
Sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with an inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity.
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Dissociative Trance Disorder (DTD)
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Altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction.
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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
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-Disorder in which as many as 100 personalities coexist within one body and mind. (Formerly AKA Multiple Personality Disorder)
- Amnesia & Fugue BOTH present
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Alters
Definition
-shorthand term for alter ego
- one of the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder.
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"la belle indifference"
Definition
lack of concern of nature or implications of symptoms
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Factitious Disorder by proxy
Definition
-when an individual deliberately makes someone else sick
- an atypical form of child abuse
- similar to conversion disorder
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Host
Definition
-of DID, the identity that keeps other identities together.
- usually develops last
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Switch
Definition
quick transition from one personality to the other
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