PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Conversion Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Psychological Trauma

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY240H5
• Professor: Taryn Grieder

Document Summary

Chapter 6: dissociative and somatic symp & related disorders. Dissociative disorders: characterized by severe maladaptive disruptions or alterations of id, memory, and consciousness that are experienced as being beyond one"s control. Somatic symp and related disorders: conditions involving bodily symps associated with significant distress and impairment. Somatic symp disorder: person has belief they are seriously ill results in serious anxiety and dysfn. Hysteria: emotional excitability & physical symps in the absence of any evident organic cause. Plato: believed that a wandering womb caused these symps. Early religious beliefs conceived dissociative states as a kind of possession (supernatural causes: treatment: exorcism. Controversy: the repressed memory theory of sexual abuse. Or does this happen bc of suggestion they become truthfully believed but are factually false recollections. Secondary gain: (freud) the benefits a pt seeks (knowingly or unknowingly by adopting sick role. Defining symp: dissociation lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings, and experiences in consciousness and memory.