Chapter 8 Flashcards
Alter identities
differ in age, gender, etc
conversion disorder
a patient has more than one symptom of altered voluntary motor or sensory function. Blindness, deafness, seizures, tremors, paralysis, anesthesia.
depersonalization disorder
one’s sense of one’s own self and one’s own reality is temporarily lost.
depersonalization/derealization disorder
when episodes become persistent and recurrent that interfere with normal functioning.
derealization disorder
one’s sense of the reality of the outside world is temporarily lost.
dissociation
disruptions in normally integrated functions like consciousness, memory, identity, perception, and motor control.
dissociative amnesia
limited to a failure to recall previously stored personal information (retrograde amnesia), failure cannot be accounted for by ordinary forgetting, specific to autobiographical memory, often follows high stress.
dissociative disorder
group of conditions involving disruptions in a normal person’s normally integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, perception, or motor control.
dissociative fugue
identity loss, assumption of new identity.
dissociative identity disorder
disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct identities or personality states, host or alters, recurrent episodes of amnesia.
factitious disorder
a person intentionally produces a physical or psychological symptoms, associated with deception, goal is obtain/maintain benefits of playing “sick role” and attention or concern from others. Deceptive behavior is evident even in the absence of obvious external rewards (sick role).
factitious disorder imposed on another (Munchausen syndrome)
the person seeking medical help has intentionally produced a medical or psychological illness, usually someone under someone else’s care.
host identity
identity that’s most frequently encountered
malingering
motivated by external incentives, intentionally produce or exaggerate physical symptoms.
post-traumatic theory of DID
