Ch 6 Flashcards
A condition involving a pattern of reporting distressing thoughts regarding the seriousness of one’s physical symptoms combined with excessive time and concern devoted to worrying about these symptoms
Somatic symptom disorder
A condition involving excessive anxiety or persistent concerns over pain that appears to have no physical basis
Somatic symptom disorder with predominant pain
Persistent health anxiety and/or concern that one has an undetected physical illness; the a
illness anxiety disorder
Condition involving sensory or motor impairment suggestive of a neurological disorder but with no underlying medical cause
Conversion disorder (functional neourological symptom disorder)
Originating from psychological causes
Psychogenic
Feigning illness for an external purpose
Malingering
A condition in which a person deliberately induces or stimulates symptoms of physical or mental illness with no apparent incentive other than attention from medical personnel or others
Factitious Disorder
Symptoms of illness are deliberately induced, stimulated, or exaggerated, with no apparent external incentive
Factitious disorder imposed on self
A pattern of falsification or production of physical or psychological symptoms in another individual
Factitious disorder imposed on another
A group of disorders, including dissociative identity disorder, and depersonalization/ derealization disorder, all of which involve some sort of dissociation, or separation, of a part of the person’s consciousness, memory, or identity
Dissociative disorder
Sudden partial or total loss of important personal information or recall of events due to psychological factors
Dissociative amnesia
Lack of memory for a specific event or events
Localized amnesia
Loss of memory for certain categories of information
Systematized amnesia
An inability to remember certain details of an event
Selective amnesia
A memory of a traumatic event has been repressed and is, therefore, unavailable for recall
Repressed memory
An episode involving complete loss of memory of one’s life and identity, unexpected travel to a new location, or assumption of a new identity
Dissociative Fugue
A dissociative condition characterized by feelings of unreality concerning the self and environment
Depersonalization/ derealization disorder
A condition in which two or more relatively independent personality states appear to exist in one person, including experiences of possession; also known as multiple-personality disorder
Dissociative identity disorder
The replacement of a person’s sense of personal identity with a supernatural spirit power
Possession
