Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Factitious Disorder, Dissociative Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
22 Sep 2020
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Illness preoccupation present for at least 6 months: preoccupation not better explained by another mental disorder, performs excessive health-related behaviours. Psych chapter 5 class notes somatic symptom, dissociative, and factitious disorders. Intentionally produced physical symptoms to avoid military service, criminal prosecution, or work, or to obtain financial compensation or drugs vs. somatic symptom disorders. Intrapsychic conflict turned to physical complaints somatic symptom disorder and conversion disorder: behavioural, modeling and reinforcement, environment, stress, sexual abuse, family separation, loss, violence, distorted cognitions, somatic amplifications. Inaccurate beliefs: prevalence of illness, meaning of symptoms, and treatment, developmental issues to consider, diagnostic criteria (consistent across all age groups, somatoform disorders (rare before adulthood) Dissociative disorders: real or imagined: long-stand controversial diagnostic group. Dissociative amnesia: amnesia vs. dissociative amnesia, both deal with the inability to recall important information, amnesia occurs after a medical condition, and dissociative amnesia follows trauma, 3 types of dissociative amnesia, localized amnesia, generalized amnesia, selective amnesia.
