Chapter 5

Question 1

somatic symptom disorder

Answer 1

Disorder involving extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident.

Question 2

dissociative disorder

Answer 2

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

Question 3

illness anxiety disorder

Answer 3

(previously known as somatoform disorder) involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause.

Question 4

psychological factors affecting medical condition

Answer 4

the presence of a diagnosed medical condition that is adversely affected (increased in frequency or severity) by one or more psychological or behavioral factors.

Question 5

conversion disorder

Answer 5

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

Question 6

malingering

Answer 6

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

Question 7

factitious disorder

Answer 7

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

Question 8

derealization

Answer 8

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

Question 9

depersonalization-derealization disorder

Answer 9

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

Question 10

dissociative amnesia

Answer 10

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

Question 11

generalized amnesia

Answer 11

Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity.

Question 12

localized or selective amnesia

Answer 12

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

Question 13

dissociative fugue

Answer 13

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 14

dissociative trance

Answer 14

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 15

dissociative identity disorder (DID)

Answer 15

Disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

Question 16

alters

Answer 16

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