Abnormal Psychology Ch 8 Somatoform And Dissociative Disorders

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Alter Identities

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In a person with dissociative identity disorder, personalities other than the host personality.

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

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Obsession with some perceived flaw or flaws in one's appearance.

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Conversion Disorder

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Pattern in which symptoms of some physical malfuncation or loss of control appear without any underlying organic pathology; originally called hysteria.

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Depersonalization

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Temporary loss of sense of one's own self and one's own reality.

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Depersonalization Disorder

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Dissociative disorder in which episodes of depersonalization and derealization become persistent and recument.

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Derealization

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Experience in which the external world is perceived as distorted and lacking a stable and palpable existence.

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Dissociation

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The human mind's capacity to mediate complex mental activity in channels split off from or independent of conscious awareness.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Psychogenically caused memory failure.

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Dissociative Disorders

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Conditions involving a disruption in an individual's normal integrated function of consciousness, memory, and/or identity.

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Dissociative Fugue

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A dissociative amnesic state in which the person is not only amnesic for some or all apsects of his or her past but also departs from home surroundings.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

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Condition in which a person manifests at least two or more distinct identities or personality states that alternate in some way in taking control of behavior. Formerly call multiple personality disorder.

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Factitious Disorder

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Feigning of symptoms to maintain the personal benefits that a sick role may provide, including the attention and concern of medical personnel and/or family members.

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Factitious Disorder by Proxy

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A variant of factitious disorder in which a person induces medical or psychological symptoms in another person who is under his or her care (usually a child).

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Host Identity

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The identity in dissociative identity disorder which is most frequently encountered and carries the person's real name. This is not usually the original identity and it may or may not be the best adjusted identity.

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Hypochondriasis

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Preoccupation, based on misinterpretation of bodily symptoms, with the fear that one has a serious disease.

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Hysteria

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Older term used for conversion disorders; involves the appearance of symptoms of organic illness in the absence of any related organic pathology.

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Implicit Memory

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Memory that occurs below the conscious level.

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Implicit Perception

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Perception that occurs below the conscious level.

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Malingering

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Consciously faking illness or symptoms of disability to achieve some specific nonmedical objective.

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Pain Disorder

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Experience of pain of sufficient duration and severity to cause significant life disruption in the absence of medical pathology that would explain it.

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Post-Traumatic Theory (of DID)

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The view that DID starts from the child's attempt to cope with an overwhelming sense of hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of repeated traumatic abuse.

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Primary Gain

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In pscyhodynamic theory it is the goal achieved by symptoms of conversion disorder by keeping internal intrapsychic conflicts out of awareness. In contemporary terms it is the goal achieved by symptoms of conversion disorder by allowing the person to escape or avoid stressful situations.

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Secondary Gain

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External circumstances that tend to reinforce the maintenance of disability.

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Sociocognitive Theory (of DID)

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View that DID develops when a highly suggestible person learns to adopt and enact the roles of multiple identities, mostly because clinicians have inadvertently suggested, legitimized, and reinforced them, and becasue these different identities are geared to the individual's own personal goal.

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Soma

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Greek word for body.

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Somatization Disorder

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Multiple complaints, over a long period beginning before age 30, of physical ailments that are inadequately explained by independent findings of physical illness or injury and that lead to medical treatment or to significant life impairment.

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Somatoform Disorders

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Conditions involving physical complaints or disabilites that occur without any evidence of physical pathology to account for them.