Chapter 8- Somatic Symptom & Dissociative Disorders

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Soma

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Greek word for body

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Somatoform disorders

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Conditions involving physical complaints or disabilities that occur without any evidence of physical pathology to account for them.

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Somatization disorder

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Multiple complaints, over a long period beginning before age 30, of physical ailments that are in adequately explained by independent findings of physical illness or injury and that led to medical treatment or two significant life impairment.

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Factitious disorder

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Feigning of symptoms to maintain the personal benefits that a sick role may provide, including the attention and concern of medical personnel or family members.

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Malingering

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Consciously faking illness or symptoms of disability to achieve some specific non-medical objective.

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Hypochondrias

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Preoccupation, based on misinterpretations of bodily symptoms, with the fear that one has a serious disease.

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Pain disorder

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Experience of pain of sufficient duration and severity to cause significant life disruption in the absence of medical pathology that would explain it.

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Illness anxiety disorder

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A newly identified disorder for the DSM-5, in which people have high anxiety about having or developing a serious illness

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Conversion disorder

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Pattern in which symptoms of some physical malfunction or loss of control appear without any underlying organic pathology, originally called hysteria.

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Hysteria

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Older term used for conversion disorders, involves the appearance of symptoms of organic illness in the absence of any related organic pathology.

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Primary gain

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In psychodynamic theory it is the goal achieved by symptoms of conversion disorder by keeping internal intrapsychic conflicts out of awareness. In contemporary terms it is the goal achieved by symptoms of conversion disorder by allowing the person to escape or avoid stressful situations.

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Secondary gain

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External circumstances that tend to reinforce the maintenance of disability.

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Factitious disorder by proxy

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A variant of factitious disorder in which a person induces medical or psychological symptoms in another person who is usually under his or her care (usually a child).

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Dissociative disorders

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Conditions involving a disruption in an individual’s normally integrated functions of consciousness, memory, or identity.

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Dissociation

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The human mind’s capacity to mediate complex mental activity in channels split off from or independent of conscious awareness.

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Dissociative amnesia

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Psychogenically caused memory failure.

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Dissociative fugue

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A dissociative amnesia state in which the person is not only amnesic for some or all aspects of his or her past but also departs from home surroundings.

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Dissociative identity disorder

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Condition in which a person manifests at least two or more distinct identities or personality states that alternate in someway in taking control of behavior. Formerly called multiple personality disorder.

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Depersonalization

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Temporary loss of sense of one’s own self and one’s own reality.

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Depersonalization disorder

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Dissociative disorder in which episodes of depersonalization and Derealization become persistent and recurrent.

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Derealization

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Experience in which the external world is perceived as distorted and lacking a stable and palpable existence.

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Socio-cognitive theory

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View that Dissociate identity disorder develops when A highly suggestible person learns to adopt and enact the roles of multiple identities, mostly because clinicians have inadvertently suggested, legitimized, and reinforced them and because these different identities are geared to the individuals own personal goals.

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Host identity

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The identity in dissociative identity disorder which is most frequently encountered and carries the person’s real name. This is not usually the original identity and it may or may not be the best adjusted identity.

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Alter identities

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In a person with dissociative identity disorder, personalities other than the host personality.

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Post traumatic theory

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The view that dissociative identity disorder starts from the child’s attempt to cope with an overwhelming sense of hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of repeated traumatic abuse.

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Implicit memory

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Memory that occurs below with the conscious level.

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Implicit perception

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Perception that occurs below the conscious level.