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PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGY. Dissociative, Somatosform, Psychosomatic, and Personality Disorders. Dissociative Disorders. Dissociative Disorders conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings. Dissociative Disorders. 1. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

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PSYCHOLOGY

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  1. PSYCHOLOGY Dissociative, Somatosform, Psychosomatic, and Personality Disorders

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

  3. 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

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

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

  6. Explanations for Dissociative Disorders • Psychoanalytic (unconscious repression) & learning perspectives view these disorders as ways of dealing with anxiety and/or severe abuse

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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Other disorders Psychosomatic = psychophysiological illness • Mind-body illness; any stress-related physical illness • Example: ulcers, headaches

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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Other Personality Dis. • Paranoid - unreasonably suspicious of others thoughts or motives • Narcissistic - excessive self-admiration/self-centeredness • Borderline - unstable • Schizoid - socially disengaged

  15. Murderer Normal Personality Disorders • PET scans illustrate reduced activation in a murderer’s frontal cortex

  16. Personality Disorders

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