PSYCHOLOGY

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PSYCHOLOGY

• Dissociative, Somatosform, Psychosomatic, and
  Personality Disorders

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Dissociative Disorders

• Dissociative Disorders
• conscious awareness becomes separated
  (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts,
  and feelings

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Dissociative Disorders

• 1. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
• rare dissociative disorder in which a person
  exhibits two or more distinct and alternating
  personalities
• Differences in
• Voice
• Vision
• Mannerisms
• balance
• formerly called multiple/split personality
  disorder

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Dissociative disorders

• Other Dissociative disorders not identified in
  your text
• 2. Dissociative amnesia- characterized by loss of
  memory w/out organic cause

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Dissociative Disorders

• 3. Dissociative fugue - involves flight from home
  assumption of a new identity, w/amnesia for
  past identity events

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Explanations for Dissociative Disorders

• Psychoanalytic (unconscious repression)
  learning perspectives view these disorders as
  ways of dealing with anxiety and/or severe abuse

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Somatoform disorders

• Somatoform disorders - this is an apparent
  physical illness for which there is
• no organic basis
• (somato - prefix for body)

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Somatoform disorders

• Types of Somatoform disorders
• 1. Conversion disorders - partial paralysis
  without physical cause (vision, limbs are common)
• 2. Hypochondria -deluded conviction of having a
  serious disease, gnawing fear of disease
• Body dysmorphic - imagined ugliness,
  preoccupation with image

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Somatoform disorders

• Types of Somatoform disorders
• Somatization disorder - characterized by numerous
  recurrent physical complaints
• Pain disorder - pain is more severe or persistent
  then can be explained by medical causes

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Other disorders

• Psychosomatic psychophysiological illness
• Mind-body illness any stress-related physical
  illness
• Example ulcers, headaches

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Personality Disorders

• Personality Disorders
• disorders characterized by inflexible and
  enduring behavior patterns that impair social
  functioning

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Personality disorders

• 3 clusters of personality disorders
• Anxiety is express in form of fear of rejection
  withdraw behavior
• Eccentric behavior (unconventional, different,
  imaginative, impulsive), social disengaged
• Dramatic, impulsive, attention getting,
  exaggerates, imaginative, unstable emotion,
  unstable relationships

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Personality Disorders

• 1. Antisocial Personality Disorder (sociopath,
  psychopath)
• disorder in which the person (usually man)
  exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing,
  even toward friends and family members
• Manipulative, impulsive, superficial
• aggressive, ruthless, or a clever con artist

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Other Personality Dis.

• Paranoid - unreasonably suspicious of others
  thoughts or motives
• Narcissistic - excessive self-admiration/self-cen
  teredness
• Borderline - unstable
• Schizoid - socially disengaged

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Personality Disorders

• PET scans illustrate reduced activation in a
  murderers frontal cortex

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Personality Disorders