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Dissociative Disorders
Persistent, maladaptive disruptions in memory, consciousness, or identity
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
A. presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states
B. at least two of these identities recurrently take control
C. inability to recall important personal information
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Possible Causes:Biological vulnerability
Severe abuse/trauma history
Suggestibility
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Treatment: identify cues or triggers that provoke
memories or dissociation
try to help person integrate personalities
hypnosis sometimes used
antidepressants may be helpful
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Depersonalization Disorder
depersonalization disorder: severe feelings of unreality - dominates the person’s life
depersonalizationderealization
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Depersonalization Disorder: Causes
Causes Cognitive deficits
AttentionShort-term memorySpatial reasoningEasily distracted
Decreased emotional response
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Dissociative Amnesia:
generalized amnesia: can’t remember
anything- even identity
localized or selective amnesia: failure to recall specific events (often traumatic)
dissociative fugue: memory loss combined with flight
dissociative trance disorder: dissociative phenomena that appears as a trance or “possession”
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Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
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Historical Roots hysteria: “wandering uterus”
physical symptoms without a known cause term dates back to Hippocrates and Egyptians
neurosis: emotional distress due to underlying unconscious conflicts, anxiety, and implementation of defense mechanisms
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Illness Anxiety Disorder
Preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease based on a misinterpretation of bodily symptoms Persists despite appropriate medical
evaluation and reassurance
Causes distress or impairment in functioning
Disturbance lasts at least 6 months
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Cultural Variations
Africa Sensation of something crawling in one’s head
India and Pakistan Sensation of burning in hands or feet dhat – concern about losing semen accompanied
by feelings of weakness and exhaustion
China, East Asia koro – sudden intense anxiety that one’s genitals
will recede into one’s body and possibly cause death
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Somatic Symptom Disorder
A disorder in which persons become excessively distressed, concerned, and anxious about the bodily symptoms that they are experiencing.
Their lives are greatly and disproportionately disrupted by the symptoms.
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Somatic Symptom Disorderand Antisocial Personality Disorder
Run in the same families
Gender differences
Common features
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• Presence of one or more symptoms or deficits that affect voluntary or sensory functioning• paralysis• blindness• difficulty speaking • loss of sense of touch
Conversion Disorder
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Cognitive behavioral view
Psychodynamic view
Tends to run in families (genetic and environmental contributions)
Often develops in context of stressful life event
Causes of Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
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Treatment(Kroenke, 2007)
Reviewed 34 randomized controlled studies of treatment of somotaform disorders (3,922 patients)
Concluded that the most effective treatment for somatoform disorders was cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).
some evidence that antidepressants and a consultation letter to primary care physician can help.
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Factitious Disorder A disorder in which an individual feigns or
induces physical symptoms, typically for the purpose of assuming the role of a sick person.
Different from Malingering
Specifiers of imposed on self vs. imposed on another (formerly factitious disorder by proxy)
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/arizona-mother-accused-poisoning-baby-munchausen-syndrome-proxy/story?id=13308998