Chapter 8

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Somatoform Disorders

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Are a group of conditions that involve physical symptoms and complaints sugesting the presence of a medical condition but without any evidence of physical pathology to account for them

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Hypochodriasis

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

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Somatization Disorder

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Multiple complaints, over a long period of time begining before the age of 30, of physical ailments that are inadiquetly explained by independent findings of physical illness or injury and can lead to medical treatment or significant life imparement. must include: 4 pain symptoms, 2 GI symptoms, one sexual symptom and one pseudoneurological symptom.

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Pain disorder

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Expirience of pain of sufficient duaration and severity to cause significant life disruption in the absence of medical pathology tha would explain it.

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Conversion disorder

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

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Primary Gain

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In Psychodinamic theory, it is the goal achieved by symptoms of conversion disorder by keeping internal intrapsychic conflicts out of aweareness. In contemporary terms it is the goal achieved by symptoms of conversion disorder by allowing the person to escape or avoid a stressfull situation.

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Secondary Gain

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External circumstances that tend to reinforce the maintanence of disability

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Malingering

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Consciously faking illness or disability to achieve some specific non-medical objective.

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Factitious Disorder

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Feigning of symptoms to maintain the personal personal benefits that a sick role may provide, includding the attention and concern of medical providers 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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Dissosiative Disorders

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Conditions involving a disrution in an individual's sense of persnal identety.

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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 from concoius awareness.

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Derealization

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

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Depersonalization Disorder

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Dissociative disorder in which there is a loss of the sense of self.

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Is the partial or total inability to recall or indentefy previously acquired information or past experiences.

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Is the partial or total inability to retain new information

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Psychogenically caused memory failure.

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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 aspects of his or her past but also departs from home sorroundings.

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Dissociative Identety Disorder (DID)

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Condition in which a person manifest at least two or more distinct identeties or personalities states that alternate in some way in talking control of behavior (previously called Multiple Personality Disorder)

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Host Identety

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The indentety in DID which is most frequently encountered and carries the person's real name. this is not usually the original identety and it may or may not be the best adjusted identety.

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Alter Identeties

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In a person with DID, personalities other than the host personality.