Dissociative Disorders
What is Dissociative Fugue?
This particular personality disorder tends to have the highest suicide rate.
What is borderline personality disorder?
Theo has schizophrenia and has been observed sitting motionless for hours, maintaining rigid postures, and resisting attempts to be moved. He sometimes mimics the speech or movements of others and shows little response to external stimuli. His condition reflects this rare but serious psychomotor symptom.
What is catatonia?
List the possible 3 causes of schizophrenia. Hint, it is not the mother's fault.
What is:
Schizophrenia caused by mutations in the sperm of fathers
Age increases the rate of mutation
Schizophrenia rate compared with fathers younger than 25 years
45 to 49 years: twice as likely
50+ years: three times as likely
Mother’s age made no difference
A collection of personality characteristics that lead to distress, social or occupational dysfunction
What are personality disorders?
Wha is sleep?
There is a difference between a sociopath and a psychopath. One learns from their ___________, while the other is ___________.
What is environment and genetic?
Many have confused this disorder with another disorder due to the Greek meaning of "split mind".
What is Schizophrenia?
William wandered into the party but didn't stay long. The "negative forces" in the room were unsettling to his "psychic soul-spot." The few guests he spoke to felt somewhat uneasy being with this aloof "space cadet."
What is schizotypal personality disorder?
Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome (APS) involves mild or brief psychotic-like symptoms that aren’t severe or long enough to meet the criteria for a full psychotic disorder
What is Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome (APS)?
It is a psychological disorder marked by a disturbance in the integration of consciousness, identity, memory, and other features
What is Dissociative Disorders?
Skyler often dresses provocatively, seeks reassurance constantly, and becomes uncomfortable when she’s not the center of attention. She believes her relationships are more intimate than they really are.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
This type of treatment has been helpful in improving mental stamina, active information processing, and social skills
What is Cognitive Enhancement Therapy [CET]?
Many 19th-century scholars believed that these patients were switching between a _________ and a ___________.
What is "normal state" and "somnambulistic state"?
Phillip is a 27-year-old, who has a history of lying, stealing, and getting into fights since his teens. He normally shows no remorse for hurting others and often manipulates people for personal gain. Despite multiple arrests, he continues to break the law without concern for consequences.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
________________ explains how dissociative disorder might develop as a coping strategy, or an escape from painful memories.
What is the Posttraumatic Model [PTM]
People with this disorder exhibit a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.
What is Avoidant Personality Disorder?
This is an example of this type __________ of disorganized speech in schizophrenia, "The flibbernoots are watching me through the skyglass, and they want to snarp my thoughts."
What is neologisms?
Although these drugs can help reduce hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech, they do little to improve cognitive deficits or negative symptoms and can be associated with distressing motor side effects.
What are typical antipsychotics?
Some people sometimes find that they are approached by people that they do not know who call them by another name or insist that they have met them before. Mark the line to show what percentage of the time this happens to you. Questions like these are used on the ___________________________ for dissociative disorders.
What is The Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES)?
This disorder has been previously known as multiple personality disorder, sometimes called a split personality, and is usually confused with schizophrenia.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder [DID]?
Chaz is a marketing executive who lacks empathy, often exploits coworkers for personal gain, and believes only other “special” people can understand him. He once fired an assistant for not complimenting his presentation.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
Bethany believes that news anchors on TV are sending her secret messages through their hand gestures. Despite reassurance from family and doctors, she remains convinced these messages are meant specifically for her.
What is delusions of reference?
This unknown serial killer buried weapons and shovels used to dispose of bodies all over the U.S. to facilitate his homicides, was likely a psychopath.
Who is Isreak Keyes?
Treatment for schizophrenia targets this brain area that is made up of myelinated axons, which affect learning & brain functions (action potential).
What is white matter?