Abnormal Psych: Ch 5

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Somatoform Disorder

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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

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Disorder in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surrounding and feel reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate

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Hypochondriasis

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Somatoform disorder involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause

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Somatization Disorder

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Somatoform disorder involving extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident

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Conversion Disorder

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Physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it

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Malingering

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Deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain.

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Factitious Disorder

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Nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except, possibly sympathy and attention

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Pain Disorder

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Somatoform disorder featuring true pain but for which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity, or maintenance

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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Somatoform disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance

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Depersonalization

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Altering of perception that causes people to temporarily lose a sense of their own reality; most prevalent in people with the dissociative disorders. There is often a feeling of being outside observers of their own behavior

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Derealization

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Situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world

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Depersonalization Disorder

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Dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonaliation are so severe they dominate the individual's life and prevent normal functioning.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Dissociative disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information; usually of a stressful or traumatic nature.

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Generalized Amnesia

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Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity.

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Localized Amnesia

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Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events. Also known as selective amnesia.

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Dissociative Fuge

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Dissociative disorder featuring 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

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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 or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

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Alter

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Shorthand term for alter ego, one of the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder