Chapter 16- Pyschological Disorders

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Major depression

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A mood disorder involving disturbances in emotions, behavior, cognitions, and body functions

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Dysthymia

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Milder but chronic type of depression, where a person’s moods are regularly low, but not as severest major depression

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Mania

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An abnormally high state of exhilaration.

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Bipolar disorder

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A mood in which episodes of depression and mania occur.

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Paranoid personality

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A disorder characterized by unreasonable, excessive, suspicious and mistrust and irrational feeling of being persecuted by others

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Narcissistic personality

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A disorder characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance and self-absorb

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Borderline personality

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A disorder characterized by intense but unstable relationships, fear of abandonment, an unrealistic self-image and emotional volatility

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Psychopathy

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A personality disorder characterized by a lack of remorse empathy, anxiety, and other social emotions; the use of deceit and manipulation and impulsive thrill seeking behaviors.

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Antisocial personality

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A personality disorder character iced by a life long patter of irresponsible, antisocial behavior such as las breaking, violence, and other implosive reckless acts

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Behavior inhibition

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The ability to control responses to frustrate or stop a pleasurable action that might have negative repercussions

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Dissociative disorders

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Conditions in which conscience or identity is spilt or altered in response to a trauma. Symptoms are intense, long lasting, appear out of control

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Amnesia

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Inability to remember important personal information usually of traumatic nature.

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Dissociative amnesia

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Repression, when a person forgets selective info that is threatening

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Dissociative fugue

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When a person forgets their identity and leaves home and wanders

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Dissociative identity disorder

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A controversial disorder marked by the apparent appearance with in one person of two or more distinct personalities, each with its own name and traits formally known as MPD

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Schizophrenia

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A psychotic disorder marked by positive and negative symptoms (delusions, hallucinations, incoherent, inappropriate behavior) an negative behavior (emotionless and loss if motivation, flat effect)

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Psychosis

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An extreme mental disturbance involve distorted perceptions and irrational behaviors. It can have either psychological or organic causes

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Catatonic schizophrenia

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Marked by periods of statue like in mobility ( unresponsiveness, posturing)

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Disorganized schizophrenia

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Incoherence, vivid and frequent hallucinations, inappropriate emotions, socially impaired

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Paranoid schizophrenia

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Preoccupations with delusions or auditory hallucinations related to persecution. Grandeur or extreme jealousy

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Schizoid

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A personality disorder with a long standing pattern of detachment of social relationships leads to solitary lifestyle does not desire or enjoy relationships

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Schizotypal personality

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A non psychotic personality disorder involving difficulty maintaining relationships, behavior and thinking that is odd and e centric, social anxiety and lack of close friends. Unusual preoccupation or fears upset by their difficulties in forming relationships

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Somatoform disorders

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Involve physical complaints that are related to psychological factors not medical causes

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Hypochondriasis

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Preoccupation with thought that the reason has a serious disease when they really don’t

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Somatization disorder

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Person has a large number of physical complaints that don’t have a medical explanation. Headaches dizziness, intense pain, vision changes

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Conversation disorder

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Loss or impairment of a motor sensory function with no medical explanation

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Paraphilias

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A sexual disorder in which unusual objects or situations cause sexual arousal

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Fetishism

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Paraphilia in which as unusual object causes sexual excitement

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Frotteurism

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Arousal by touching or rubbing against a non-consenting person in a public place

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Voyeurism

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Person derives pleasure from looking at naked bodies while hidden from view

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Gender identity disorder

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Rejection of ones biological sex a d desire to become a member of the opposite sex

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Dependent personality disorder

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A chronic condition in which people depend on others to meet all of theory emotional needs (needy, passive, clingy, fear of separation)

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Avoidance personality

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A pervasive pattern of feeling very shy, inadequate and sensitive to rejection leading to the avoidance of others and social isolation

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Histrionics personality

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Tendency to over react and use excessive emotions to draw attention to themselves and manipulate others