PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Psychogenic Amnesia, Factitious Disorder, Anterograde Amnesia
12 Jun 2013
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With all of the vocabulary stuff out of the way, we"ll now be looking more in depth at the actual disorders. First guest speaker later in lecture will be talking about anxiety disorders and gestalt therapy: *will not be tested on what guest speaker says so i won"t take notes on it. However, this lecture begins with a look at somatoform and dissociative disorders. They"re both presented in the same chapter, but difference b/t them is somatoform disorders are much more common: dissociative disorders are very rare. Psychological factors play a significant role in the onset and maintenance of the pain experienced by the patient. Dsm includes 3 subtypes of pain disorder: pain disorder associated with psychological factors, pain disorder associated with a general medical condition, *pain disorder associated with both psychological factors and a general medical. Prof says this last subtype is important. Nobody diagnoses the first two because pain is a biopsychosocial process.
