PSY 3604 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fugue State, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia

• School: UMN
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3604
• Professor: Sam Cooper

Document Summary

6- somatic symptom and related disorders and dissociative disorders. Somatic symptom disorder: disorder involving extreme and long-lasing focus on multiple psychical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident. Dissociative disorder: disorder in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and reality, experience and identity may disintegrate. Illness anxiety disorder: somatic symptom disorder involving sever anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause. Conversion disorder: physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with not organic pathology to account for it. Malingering: deliberate faking of a physical or psychological deliberately faked for no apparent gain except possibly sympathy and attention. Factious disorder: nonexistent psychical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except possibly sympathy and attention. Derealization: situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world.