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Chapter 5: Somat/Dis

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factitious disorder   NONEXISTENT physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain, except possibly sympathy and attention  
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somatoform disorder   pathological concern of individuals with the APPEARANCE or FUNCTIONING of their bodies, usually in the absence of any identifiable MEDICAL condition  
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dissociative disorder   Disorder in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and feel reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate  
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hypochondriasis   somatoform disorder involving SEVERE anxiety over beleif IN HAVING a disease without any evident physical cause  
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somatization disorder   somatoform dis. involving extreme and long-lasting focus on MULTIPLE physical symtoms for which no medical cause is evident  
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conversion disorder   physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it  
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malingering   DELIBERATE faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by GAIN  
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munchausen syndrome   parent responsible for children's symptoms, inducing illness  
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Pain disorder   somatoform disorder: featuring TRUE pain but for which psychological factors pay an important role in onset, severity, and maintanence  
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body dysmorphic disorder   somatoform dis. featuring a disruptive PREOCCUPATION with some imagined defect in appearance or gross exaggeration of a slight blemish  
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depersonalization   altering of perception that causes people to TEMPORARILY lose a sense of their OWN reality; dissociative disorder. there is often a feeling of being outside observers of their OWN behavior  
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DEREALIZATION   situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world. things may seem to change in size and shape. people may seem dead or mechanical  
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depersonalization disorder   dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so SEVERE they dominate the individual's life and prevent normal functioning////RARE  
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DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA   DISSOCITIVE disorder; the inability to recall personal information; usually of a STRESSFUL or TRAUMATIC NATURE  
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GENERALIZED AMNESIA   loss of memory of ALL PERSONAL information, including IDENTITY  
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localized amnesia   memory loss limited to SPECIFIC TIMES AND EVENTS, particularly traumatic events. also known as selective amnesia  
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dissociative fugue   diss. dis. featuring sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with an inability to recall the past, sometimes with an assumption of a new identity  
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dissociative trance disorder   altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction  
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dissociative identity disorder (DID)   disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind.  
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alter   shorthand for alter ego/ one of the different personalties or identities in dissociative identity disorder  
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