PSYC 3230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Psychological Trauma, Diplopia, Dsm-5
23 Mar 2013
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Describe the symptoms and clinical features of the major dissociative disorders. Compare and contrast two competing theories of the etiology of dissociative identity disorder. Describe the symptoms and clinical features of the major somatoform disorders. Explain how biological, psychological, and social-environmental factors can work together to cause somatoform disorders. Discuss the goals and methods of contemporary psychological treatments for somatoform disorders. Dissociative disorders include a wide range of different symptoms that involve severe disruptions in consciousness, memory, and identity. Somatoform disorders include conditions in which individuals complain about a physical defect or dysfunction for which no medical explanation can be found. Many clinicians and researchers believe that these disorders result from maladaptive ways of coping with extreme stress. Although dissociative and somatoform disorders are classified as two separate diagnostic categories in the. Dsm-iv-tr, they are strongly linked historically and share common features. Plato believed these symptoms were caused in women by a wandering womb.
