Ch 12- Somatic Aymotons & Related Disorders

Question 1

Conversion disorder

Answer 1

Disorder affects voluntary and sensory functions:
Paralysis blindness, loss of hearing, episodes like epilepsy.
“La Bella indifference”

Question 2

Factitious disorder

Answer 2

Deliberately fabricate symptoms of illness or self injury w/o obvious gains.

Question 3

Malingering

Answer 3

Convoys feigning an illness for obvious benefit. (Like financial gain from lawsuits, gain pain meds & etc)
Typically state issue is something subjective like back pain or headaches

Question 4

Extreme worry & fear. Extreme concern & preoccupation with having a devastating disease

Answer 4

Illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis)

Question 5

Mother found out son had HIV. She became distressed and perceived changes in appearance when she looks in mirror. she thinks that her image looks wavy and indistinctable

Answer 5

Depersonalizations disorder

Question 6

Derealization

Answer 6

Unreal, dream like. Experience of unreality of surroundings

Question 7

Dissociative amnesia

Answer 7

Inability to recall important personal information often from something traumatic. Localize or generalized

Question 8

Dissociative amnesia with fugue

Answer 8

Inability to recall identity and some and all of past. Typically lives simple and quiet lives.

Question 9

Frankie and Alice movie portrayed what type of disorder?

Answer 9

Dissociative identity disorder