PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fugue State
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Somatoform: bodily symptoms suggest some sort of illness, but no physiological basis is found. Pain disorder: psychological factors play a significant role in the onset and maintenance of pain. Anything makes the pain worse to them, even if it"s not really there. Body dysmorphic disorder: preoccupation with imagined or exaggerated defects in physical appearance. Hypochondriasis: preoccupation with fears of having a serious illness. Overgeneralizing symptoms to fit what the person may have, or misinterpreting certain symptoms. Somatization disorder: 4 pain symptoms, 2 gastrointestinal symptom, 1 sexual symptom, and 1 pseudo-neurological symptom. Malingering is a good process for determining whether or not the symptoms are involuntary [remembering certain things]. Dissociative disorders: disruptions in consciousness, memory, and identity. Dissociative amnesia: person is unable to recall important personal information. These often do not last very long: anterograde: can"t remember anything after the event. Dissociative fugue: they leave behind everything, and goes to a new destination and creates a new identity.
