4 Somatoform And Dissociative Disorders

Question 0

Dissociative disorder

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Disorder in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and feel reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate.

Question 1

Somatoform disorder

Answer 1

Pathological concern of individuals With the appearance or functioning of their bodies, usually in the absence of any identifiable medical condition.

Question 2

Hypochondriasis

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Somatoform disorder involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause.

Question 3

Somatization disorder

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Somatoform disorder involving extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical causes evident.

Question 4

Pain disorder

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Somatoform disorder featuring true pain but for which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity, or maintenance.

Question 5

Conversion disorder

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Physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it.

Question 6

Malingering

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Deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain.

Question 7

Factitious disorder

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Nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except, possibly, sympathy and attention.

Question 8

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)

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Somatoform disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance (“imagined ugliness”).

Question 9

Derealization

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Situation in which the individual loses a sense of reality of the external world.

Question 10

Depersonalization disorder

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Dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the individual’s life and prevent normal functioning.

Question 11

Dissociative amnesia

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Dissociative disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information; usually of a stressful or traumatic nature.

Question 12

Generalized amnesia

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Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity.

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Localized or selective amnesia

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Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events.

Question 14

Dissociative fugue

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Dissociative disorder featuring sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with an inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity.

Question 15

Dissociative trance disorder (DTD)

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Altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction.

Question 16

Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

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Disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind.

Question 17

Alters

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Shorthand term for alter ego, one of the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder.