Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY 6th Edition in Modules

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Myers EXPLORING PSYCHOLOGY (6th Edition in
Modules)

• Module 37
• Anxiety, Dissociative, and Personality Disorders
• James A. McCubbin, PhD
• Clemson University
• Worth Publishers

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Anxiety Disorders

• Anxiety Disorders
• distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive
  behaviors that reduce anxiety
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• person is tense, apprehensive, and in a state of
  autonomic nervous system arousal

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Anxiety Disorders

• Panic Disorder
• marked by a minutes-long episode of intense dread
  in which a person experiences terror and
  accompanying chest pain, choking, or other
  frightening sensation

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Anxiety Disorders

• Phobia
• persistent, irrational fear of a specific object
  or situation
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or
  actions (compulsions)

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Anxiety Disorders

• Common and uncommon fears

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Anxiety Disorders
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Anxiety Disorders

• PET Scan of brain of person with Obsessive/
  Compulsive disorder
• High metabolic activity (red) in frontal lobe
  areas involved with directing attention

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Dissociative Disorders

• Dissociative Disorders
• conscious awareness becomes separated
  (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts,
  and feelings
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• rare dissociative disorder in which a person
  exhibits two or more distinct and alternating
  personalities
• formerly called multiple personality disorder

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Personality Disorders

• Personality Disorders
• disorders characterized by inflexible and
  enduring behavior patterns that impair social
  functioning
• usually without anxiety, depression, or delusions

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Personality Disorders

• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• disorder in which the person (usually man)
  exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing,
  even toward friends and family members
• may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con
  artist

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Mood Disorders-Depression

• Boys who were later convicted of a crime showed
  relatively low arousal

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Personality Disorders

• PET scans illustrate reduced activation in a
  murderers frontal cortex

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Beating DepressionSeligman Suggests

• Give 5 percent of last years income away. Do it
  personally, not through a charity. Advertise
  among potential recipients in a charitable field
  of interest that you are giving, say, 2000 away.
  Interview applicants, give out the money, and
  follow its use to a successful conclusion.

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Beating DepressionSeligman Suggests

• -Give up eating out once a week, shopping for
  new shoes, watching a rented movie on Tuesday
  night, and spend the time promoting the
  well-being of others. Help in a soup kitchen,
  visit AIDS patients, clean the public park, raise
  funds for your alma mater.

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Beating DepressionSeligman Suggests

• Visit areas where you will encounter the
  homeless. Talk to beggars and judge as well as
  you can whether they will use the money for
  nondestructive purposes. Spend three hours a week
  doing this.

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Beating DepressionSeligman Suggests

• When you read of particularly virtuous or evil
  acts, write letters. Compose fan letters to
  people who could use your praise,
  mend-your-ways letters to people and
  organizations you dislike. Follow up with letters
  to elected officials who can act directly. Again,
  spend three hours weekly in this activity.

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Beating DepressionSeligman Suggests

• Teach your children to give things away. Suggest
  they set aside one-fourth of their allowance to
  give to a needy person or project. Further
  suggest that they do this personally.

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Phobias

• Acrophobia Heights
• Ophidiophobia Snakes
• Aerophobia Flying
• Arachnophobia Spiders
• Ornithophobia Birds
• Agoraphobia Open spaces
• Astraphobia Lightning
• Mikrophobia Germs
• Phonophobia Speaking aloud
• Brontophobia Thunder
• Trichophobia Hair
• Anthropophobia People

• Aquaphobia Water
• Gephyrophobia Bridges
• Herpetophobia Reptiles
• Ailurophobia Cats
• Murophobia Mice
• Pyrophobia Fire
• Claustrophobia Closed spaces
• Numerophobia Numbers
• Thanatophobia Death
• Anthophobia Flowers
• Cynophobia Dogs
• Nyctophobia Darkness