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Dissociative Disorders
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A disorder characterized by disruption, or dissociation of idenity,memory, or consciousness.
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Dissociative idenity disorder
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A dissocative disorder in which a person has two or more distinct, or alter personalities. Split personality.
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dissociative amnesia
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a dissociative disorder in which a person experiences memory loss without any identifiable organic cause.
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Dissociative fugue
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a dissociative disorder in which one suddenly flees from one's life situations, travels to a new location, assumes a new idenity, and has amnesia for personal material.
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Depersonalization
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Feelings of unreality or detachment from one's self or one's body.
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Derealization
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a sense of unreality about the outside world.
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Depersonalization disorder
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A disorder characterized by persistent or recurrent episodes of depersonalization.
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Somatoform disorders
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A disorder characterized by complaints of phsyical problems or symptoms that cannot be explained by physical causes.
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Malingering
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faking illness in order to avoid work or duty.
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Factitious disorders
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a disorder characterized by intentional fabrication of psychological or physical symptoms for no apparent gain.
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Munchausen Syndrome
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A type of factitious disorder characterized by the fabrication of medical symptoms. Fakes being ill or makes him/herself ill.
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Conversion Disorder
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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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Hypochondriasis
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a somatoform disorder characterized by the misinterpretation of physical symptoms as signs of underlying serious disease.
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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 of appearance.
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Pain Disorder
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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. Pain may interfere with a person's daily functioning.
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Somatization disorder
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a somatoform disorder characterized by recurrent multiple complaints that cannot be explained by a physical cause.
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Koro syndrome
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A culture-bound somatoform disorder found primarily in china, in which people fear that their genitals are shrinking.
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Dhat syndrome
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a culture-bound somatoform disorder, found primarily among asian Indian males, characterized by excessive fears over the loss of seminal fluid.
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