PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psychogenic Amnesia, Hypnotic Susceptibility, Heritability
5 Apr 2016
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Chapter 6: dissociative and somatic symptoms and related disorders. Dissociative identity disorder: an individual has two or more distinct identities that alternate control of his or her behavior o. Somatic symptom disorder: people have long standing beliefs that they have a serious illness, resulting in excessive anxiety and dysfunction. Somatic symptom and related disorders include conditions involving bodily symptoms associated with significant distress and impairment. Researchers believe these disorders result from maladaptive ways of coping with extreme stress. Knowledge about these two disorders are limited. Dissociative and somatic symptom and related disorders are classified as two separate diagnostic categories in the dsm 5: they are linked historically and share common features. Leading to dissociative and somatic symptom disorders to be separated into two groupings independent of the anxiety disorders due to different symptom presentation. Christianity removed organic theories of hysteria and replaced it with supernatural explanations: demonic possessions were treated with exorcism.
