Somatic and Dissociative Disorders

Question 1

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

Answer 1

somatic symptom disorder (previously known

as somatization disorder)

Question 2

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

Answer 2

dissociative disorder

Question 3

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

Answer 3

illness anxiety disorder

Question 4

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

Answer 4

conversion disorder (functional neurological
symptom disorder)

Question 5

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

Answer 5

malingering

Question 6

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

Answer 6

factitious disorder

Question 7

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

Answer 7

derealization

Question 8

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

Answer 8

depersonalization-derealization disorder

Question 9

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

Answer 9

dissociative amnesia

Question 10

Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity.

Answer 10

generalized amnesia

Question 11

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

Answer 11

localized or selective amnesia

Question 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.

Answer 12

dissociative fugue

Question 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.

Answer 13

dissociative trance disorder

Question 14

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

Answer 14

alters

Question 15

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

Answer 15

dissociative identity disorder (DID)