Abnormal 7 - somatic/dissociative

Somatic symptom and related disorders

physical illnesses or bodily symptoms related to an individuals distressing thoughts

Illness Anxiety Disorder

people with little to no somatic symptoms, but report preoccupation with having or contracting an illness

3 Characteristics of IAD

• disease conviction

• disease fear

• body perception

Conversion Disorder

mental health condition where psychological stress or trauma is expressed as physical symptoms, that cannot be explained by other conditions

Factitious Disorder

people deceive by pretending to be sick, and faking symptoms

Factitious Disorder on another

someone falsely claiming another person has a physical/mental condition

Localized Amnesia

inability to recall events that happened in a specific period, often centered on a painful/disturbing event

Systematized Amnesia

unable to recall memories of categories of information

Selective Amnesia

inability to remember certain details of an incident

Dissociative Fugue

wandering/purposeless travel accompanied by amnesia for ones identity/life history

depersonalization/derealization disorder

feelings of unreality, detachment, or dreamlike detachment from body or environment

Dissociative Identity Disorder

disruption of identity, showing an alteration in behavior attitudes and emotions when in different states

Biological DID

brain disruption when encoding memories, or brain alterations

Psychological DID

individuals use of repression to block unpleasant/traumatic events from consciousness

social/sociocultural DID

learn through mass media, and begin to act out

Iatrogenic disorder

condition unintentionally produced by therapists actions/strategies

3 Phase Approach to treating DID

• psychoeducation and CBT strategies

• identifying and working through traumatic events

• focusing on personality integration

psychoeducational program

program with therapist, helps improve emotional regulation and decrease PTSD symptoms

Schema therapy

combination of CBT and interpersonal therapy, altering modes of behaviors