Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16.2: Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder, Fugue State, Dissociative Identity Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Physical complaints or disabilities that suggest a medical problem but no known biological cause and not produced voluntarily by person. Pain disorder: intense pain out of proportion to what medical condition they have or no biological bases: different from psychophysiological disorders: psychological factor contributes to physiological: ulcers, asthma, hypertension. Functional neurological symptom disorder: (conversion disorder) a serious neurological symptom (paralysis, blindness) suddenly occurs: but imaging reveals all nerves are still fine, belle indifference: lack of concern toward symptom and implications. Likely to occur under wartime conditions: psychogenic blindness after witnessing killing acts in vietnam not fake, freud: ego detects crazy amount of anxiety and keeps in unconscious through physical symptom control. Biological since it runs in families and psychological. Suggestible: higher in cultures that do not talk about emotions or stigmatize psychological disorders. Amnesia: a response to a stressful event, extensive but selective memory loss (depends)