PSYCO105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Impulse Control Disorder, Factitious Disorder, Panic Disorder

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Symptoms behaviours, thoughts, and emotions suggestive of an underlying abnormal syndrome a coherent cluster of symptoms usually due to a single cause. Dsm = diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders a classification system. Homosexuality dropped from the list of psychological disorders in 1974. Categories of mental disorders: disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or early adolescence. Bed-wetting: delirium, dementia, amnesic, and other cognitive disorders, mental disorders due to a general medical condition not elsewhere classified. Deterioration of the brain from prolonged drug abuse: substance-related disorders, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders preoccupation with physical health with no cause. Hypochondriac: factitious disorders adopted to satisfy some psychological need, dissociative disorders, sexual and gender identity disorders, eating disorders. Furious pete: sleep disorders, impulse control disorder not elsewhere classified. Pathological gambling: adjustment disorders, personality disorders, other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention. Comorbidity is relatively common in patients within the dsm diagnostic system.

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