PSY 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Factitious Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: Psychology - A&S
• Course: PSY 262
• Professor: Sorornejad

Document Summary

Illness anxiety disorder: somatic symptom disorder, conversion disorder, factitious disorder, imposed on self or others, dissociative amnesia, dissociative amnesia, with dissociative fugue, depersonalization/derealization disorder, dissociative identity disorder. Somatic symptom disorder: although one somatic symptom may not be continuously present, the state of being symptomatic is persistent, typically more than 6 months. Illness anxiety disorder: having or acquiring illness, somatic symptoms are not present or mild, easily alarmed, excessive health-related behaviors, worry over 6 months (illness can change) Conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder: 1 or more altered voluntary motor or sensory function, evident of incompatibility between symptom and recognized neurological or medical conditions. Innate sensitivity to body sensations: lower threshold for pain, history of illness or injury. Treatment of somatic symptom: biological, medication, ri"s, anxiety and depression medication, psychological, empathy, stress-related, cbt. Inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.