16-3 Flashcards
1
Q
Conversion disorder
A
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of specific voluntary body function.
2
Q
Dissociative disorder
A
A disorder in which a person experiences alterations in memory, identity, or consciousness.
3
Q
Dissociative Amnesia
A
The inability to recall important personal events or information; is usually associated with stressful events.
4
Q
Dissociative fugue
A
A dissociative disorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past.
5
Q
Dissociative identity disorder
A
A person who exhibits two or more personality states, each with its own patterns of thinking and behaving.
6
Q
Somatoform disorder
A
A condition in which there is no apparent physical cause.
