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Chapter 6
Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders and Dissociative Disorders
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
09/30/2015

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Hypochondriac is currently referred to as
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Illness Anxiety Disorder
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Somatic Symptom Disorder
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disorder involving extreme and long lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident
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Dissociative Disorder
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individuals feel detached or from themselves or their surroundings and reality experience and identity may disintegrate
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Illness anxiety Disorder
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severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident of physical cause
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Conversion Disorder
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physical malfunctioning such as blindness or paralysis suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it
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mailngering
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deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain
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Factitious disorder
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nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately FAKED FOR NO GAIN EXCEPT SYMPATHY
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Derealization
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Situation in which the individual looses a sense of reality of the external world
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Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
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Feeling of Depersonalization are so severe they dominate the clients life and prevent normal functioning
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Dissociative Amnesia
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the inability to recall personal information usually of a stressful of traumatic nature
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Generalized Amnesia
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loss of memory of all personal information including identity
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Localized or Selective Amnesia
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memory loss limited to specific times and events; particularly traumatic events
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Dissociative Fugue
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type of Dissociative amnesia featuring sudden unexpected travel away from home, inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Formerly known as multiple personality disorder; as many as 100 personalities fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind
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Dissociative Trance Disorder
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Altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits;
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Alters
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alter egos; different personalities or identities in Dissociative identity disorder
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Dissociative Trance Disorder is only considered a disorder when ________
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there is distress and dysfunction
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Dissociation/Dissociative Experiences
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Slight alterations or detachments in consciousness or identity
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