Chapter 6: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

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 reality, experience, and
identity may disintegrate.

Question 3

illness anxiety disorder

Answer 3

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

Question 4

conversation disorder
(functional neurological
symptom disorder)

Answer 4

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

Question 5

malingering

Answer 5

Deliberate faking of a physical or

psychological disorder motivated by gain.

Question 6

factittious disorder

Answer 6

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

Question 7

derealization

Answer 7

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

Question 8

depersonalization-derealization disorder

Answer 8

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

Question 9

dissociative amnesia

Answer 9

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

Question 10

generalized amnesia

Answer 10

Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity.

Question 11

localized or selective amnesia

Answer 11

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

Question 12

dissociative fugue

Answer 12

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

Question 13

dissociative trance disorder

Answer 13

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 14

alters

Answer 14

Shorthand term for alter egos, the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder.