Schizophrenia
What is the definition of Schizophrenia?
A group of severe psychotic disorders characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotion, and behavior.
What are the four types of personality Disorders?
Paranoid, Schizoid, Avoidant, antisocial
What is a mood disorder?
An emotional disorder in which the person's emotions are excessive or contrary to what is expected
What does a person with hypochondriasis fear?
That they have a serious illness
What are the 4 kinds of dissociative Disorders?
Dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity, depersonalization
What is the most common type of schizophrenia?
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Which personality disorder is characterized by general distrust and speciousness of others?
Paranoid.
What are the two types of mood Disorders?
Depression and bipolar
What does BDD stand for?
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Which disorder is characterized by a loss of personal identity?
Dissociative fugue
What kind of Schizophrenia is characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed sturporous state for long periods of time?
Catatonic Schizophrenia.
What personality disorder is characterized by a person who wants relationships with other but cannot because they fear disapproval of others?
Avoidant
How many out of 9 symptoms do you have to have to be considered clinically depressed?
5/9
a change in a loss of physical functioning in a major part of the body with no physical explanation
Which disorder is caused by serious abuse?
Dissociative identity disorder
Disintegration of personality including erratic speech, childish mannerisms, and bizarre behavior.
What personality disorder do all serial killers have?
Antisocial
People with depression have lower levels of what two neurotransmitters?
serotonin and noradrenaline
what is somatoform disorder?
A preoccupation with some imagined physical defect in a normal person when there is no physical explanation
Who was famous for having 16 different personalities?
Shirley Mason aka Sybil
Psychodynamic- regression to early childhood, and extreme reaction to anxiety.
Name at least four of the symptoms that one has to have in order to have a personality disorder.
1. Avoid activities that involves interpersonal contact
2. Avoids getting involved due to fear of not being liked by others
3. Restraint in intimate relationships do to fear of shame
4. Marked preoccupation of being rejected or criticized by others
5. Stay away from new Interpersonal situations due to feelings of inadequacy
6. Views oneself as inferior, socially inept, or personally unappealing
7. Takes few if any personal risks in the engagement of new activities, for fear of being embarrassed
Name the steps on the scale of mania for bipolar disorder form severe depression to severe mania.
Severe depression, mild to moderate depression, normal/balanced mood, hypomania, severe mania.
What is the psychodynamic explanation?
The disorders occur because people repress emotions associated with forbidden urges and instead express them symbolically in physical symptoms.
What is the biological cause for dissociative disorders?
There is no genetic correlation.