16-3 Flashcards
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function
Conversion disorder
A condition in which there is no apparent psychical cause
Somatoform disorder
A disorder in which a person experiences alterations in memory, identity, or consciousness
Dissociative disorder
The inability to recall important personal events or information; is usually associated with stressful events
Dissociative amnesia
A dissociative disorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away from home and is unable to recall the past
Dissociative fugue
A person exhibits toe or more personality states, each with its own patterns of thinking and behaving
Dissociative identity disorder