Terms
What is used by clinicians and psychiatrists to diagnose psychiatric illnesses?
What is the DSM-IV-TR.
When conscious awareness seems to become separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
What are Dissociative Disorders.
Characterized by emotional extremes.
What is a Mood Disorder.
Only classified as a psychological disorder when it becomes distressing or persistent.
What is an Anxiety Disorder.
It is the preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations. It is a type of schizophrenia.
What is paranoia.
What is Mania?
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.
A rare dissociation disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Think of Sybil.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Mood disorders come in two principal forms: _____________ and ____________.
What is major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.
When Jim feels persistent and uncontrollable apprehension and feelings of being tense but for no reason at all is called ____________.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
What is Catatonic?
A type of schizophrenia where a person is completely immobile.
Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a bodily form without a physical cause.
What is a somatoform disorder.
Daniel has lost the memory of his personal identity. What is this called?
What is Dissociative Fugue.
It is called the "common cold" of psychological disorders.
What is Depression.
Sarah has persistent and repetitive thoughts and actions. What is this psychological disorder called?
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD.
What is Schizophrenia?
This means split mind.
What is the Medical Model?
The concept that psychological disorders can be diagnosed, treated, and cured.
Formerly Known as Multiple Personality Disorder.
What is DID, Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Feelings of worthlessness, lethargy, loss of interest in family and friends, which last two or more weeks is called.
What is Major Depressive Disorder.
Kyle has an irrational fear of a rabbits. This is called a ________.
What is a Phobia.
Who is John Ashbery?
Who said the following "The lure of the work is strong, but so is the terror of the unanswerable riddles it proposes."?
Deviant and distressful behaviors and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
What is Psychological Disorder.
Traumatic Events in which a person _________ and experiences a sudden loss of memory or change in identity.
What are dissociates.
Emily is a 27 year old woman who experiences the highs of mania and the lethargy of depression. She is said to have _________.
What is Bipolar Disorder.
What psychoanalytic psychologist viewed anxiety disorders as the manifestation of mental energy associated with the discharge of repressed impulses.
Who is Freud.
What are Hallucinations?
A person with schizophrenia may have _____________. These are seeing, feeling, tasting, or smelling things that are not there.