PSC 168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Group Psychotherapy, Dissociative Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder
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Intensive, repetitive anxiety-arousing thought or image: common themes, contamination, harming someone, driving off bridges, order. Sexual ideas (fear of doing something shocking: compulsion, need to perform acts to reduce anxiety, common behaviors/rituals involve, cleaning and washing, checking, counting, ordering, touching. Seeking verbal reassurances from others: dsm-v definition, recurrent intrusive thoughts/images and/or compulsion, attempts made to suppress the thoughts or behaviors. Symptoms must have been present for at least 6 months. Specifiers: good/fair insight; poor insight; absent insight/delusional: onset, 4-25 years, rare after age 40 (r/o brain pathology) unless comorbid depression or pregnancy, course. "waxing and waning" chronic course if not treated: prevalence. Ssri"s including prozac, paxil, luvox, zoloft, celexa, and lexapro: hoarding disorder (compulsive hoarding, dsm-v definition lists include. Strong need to accumulate possession regardless of value: persistent difficulty or distress associated with discarding them. Shyness and social phobia: cultural emphasis on perfection and beauty, treatment of body dysmorphic disorder.
