Voca. 16-3 Flashcards
Conversion Disorder
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function
Somatoform Disorder
A condition in which there is no apparent physical cause
Dissociative Disorder
A disorder in which a person experiences alterations in memory, identity, or consciousness
Dissociative amnesia
The inability to recall important personal events of information; usually associated with stressful events
Dissociative Fugue
A dissociative disorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away home or work and is unable to recall the past
Dissociative Identity Disorder
A person exhibits two or more personality states, each with its own patterns of thinking and behaving