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Disorder where a person feels detached from themselves or the surroundings. Reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate.
What is dissociative disorder?
Disorder involving extreme and long-lasting focus on physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident.
What is somatic symptom disorder?
Disorder involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process w/out any evident physical cause.
What is illness anxiety disorder?
Deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain.
What is malingering?
What is Munchausen syndrome?
Situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world.
What is derealization?
Dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the person's life and prevent normal functioning.
What is depersonalization-derealization disorder?
Disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information, usually of a stressful or traumatic nature.
What is dissociative amnesia?
Memory loss limited to specific times and events, usually traumatic.
What is localized or selective amnesia?
Type dissociative amnesia featuring sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with the inability to recall the past, sometimes with the assumption of a new identity.
Altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only when there is distress and dysfunction.
What is dissociative trance?
Loss of memory of all personal info, including identity.
What is generalized amnesia?
Nonexistent physical psychological disorder deliberately faked faked for no apparent gain except possibly sympathy and attention.
What is factitious disorder?
disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist with one body and mind
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
What are alters?
Disorder with the presence of medical condition (caused by a known medical condition) that is adversely affected by psychological or behavioral factors.
What are psychological factors affecting medical condition?
Physical malfunctioning, such as blindness, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for.
What are Functional Neurological Symptom Disorders (conversion disorders)