Abnormal Psychology Chapter 6 Barlow

abnormal psychology

Somatic symptom disorder

Disorder involving extreme and long lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical causes evidence.

Dissociative disorder

Disorder in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate.

illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis)

Involving severe anxiety over the belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause

Psychological factors affecting medical condition

psychological dysfunction associated with distress or impairment in functioning that is not a typical or culturally expected response

Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder)

Physical malfunctioning, such as paralysis, blindness, or difficulty speaking (aphonia), without any physical or organic pathology to account for the malfunction.

Malingering

Deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain.

Factitious disorder

Nonexistent, physical or psychological disorder, deliberately faked for no apparent gain, except possibly sympathy and attention

Derealization

Situation in which the individual loses a sense of reality of the external world

Depersonalization-derealization disorder

In which feelings of depersonalization are so severe, they dominate the clients life and prevent normal functioning

Dissociative amnesia

Disassociative disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information usually of a stressful or traumatic nature

Generalized amnesia

loss of memory of all personal information, including identity

Localized or selective amnesia

Memory loss limited to specific times in advance, particularly traumatic events

Dissociative fugue

Type of disassociative amnesia featuring sudden unexpected travel away from home along with an inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity

Dissociative identity disorder

Formally known as multiple personality disorder, a disorder in which, as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind

Dissociative trance disorder

Altered state of consciousness in which the person believes firmly that he or she is possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction.

Alters

Shorthand term for alter egos, the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder.