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An impairment or loss of sensation, usually of touch but sometimes of the other senses, that is often part
of conversion disorder. |
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Conversion disorder wherein patients have suffered lesions in the visual cortex and report themselves
blind, but can perform well on some specific visual tests |
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| A somatoform disorder marked by preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated defect in appearance-for example, facial wrinkles or excess facial or body hair. |
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| A somatoform disorder in which sensory or motor function are impaired, even though there is no detectable neurological explanation for the deficits |
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| depersonalization disorder |
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| A dissociative disorder in which the individual feels unreal and estranged from the self and surroundings enough to disrupt functioning. People with this disorder may feel that their extremities have changed in size or that they are watching themselves from a distance. |
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| A process whereby a group of mental processes is split off from the main stream of consciousness, or behavior loses its relationship with the rest of the personality |
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| A dissociative disorder in which the person suddenly becomes unable to recall important personal information to an extent that cannot be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. |
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| Disorders in which the normal integration of consciousness, memory, or identity is suddenly and temporarily altered; include dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder(multiple personaility), and depersonalization disorder. |
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Disorder in which the person expenences
total amnesia, moves, and establishes a new identity |
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| dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
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| A rare dissociative disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder, or MPD) in which two or more fairly distinct and separate personalities are present within the same individual, each with his or her own memories, relationships, and behavlor patterns, with only one of them dominant at any given time |
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Memory involving the conscious recall
of experiences; the area of deficits typically seen in dissociative
amnesia. Compare implicit memory |
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| Disorder in which the individual physical or psychological symptoms appear under voluntary control and are adopted merely to assume the role of a sick person; called factitious disorder by proxy or Munchausen syndrome when a parent produces a physical illness In a child. |
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A somatoform disorder in which the person, misinterpreting rather ordinary physical sensations,
is preoccupied with fears of having a serious disease. Compare sexual aversion disorder |
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| Memory that underlies behavior but is based on experiences that cannot be consciously recalled;typically not compromised in cases of dissociative amnesia. Compare explicit memory. |
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| The blase attitude people with conversion disorder have toward their symptoms. |
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Faking a physical or psychological incapacity in order to avold a responsibility or gain an end, where the goal is readily recognized from the individual's circumstances distinct from conversion disorder, in
which the incapacity is assumed to be beyond voluntary control. |
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| A somatoform disorder in which the person complains of severe and prolonged pain that is not fully explainable by organic pathology and is thus assumed to be caused or intensified by psychological factors. |
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| posttraumatic model (of DID) |
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| Etiological model of dissociative identity disorder that assumes the condition begins in childhood as a result of severe physical or sexual abuse. Compare sociocognitive model. |
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| sociocognitive model (of DID) |
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| Etiological model of dissociative identity disorder that considers the condition to be the result of learning to enact social roles, though not through conscious deception, but in response to suggestion. Compare posttraumatic model. |
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| somatization disorder (Briquet's syndrome) |
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| A somatoform disorder in which the person continually seeks medical help for recurrent and multiple physical symptoms that have no discoverable physical cause, despite a complicated medical history that is dramatically presented. Compare hypochondriasis. |
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| Disorders in which symptoms suggest a physical problem but have no known physiological cause; believed to be linked to psychological conflicts and needs but not voluntarily assumed. See somatization disorder (Briquet's syndrome), conversion disorder, pain disorder, and hypochondriasis. |
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