PSYCHOLOGY Dissociative, Somatosform, Psychosomatic, and Personality Disorders

Dissociative Disorders  conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

Dissociative Disorders 1. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)  rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities  Differences in:  Voice  Vision  Mannerisms  balance  formerly called multiple/split personality disorder

Dissociative disorders Other Dissociative disorders not identified in your text: 2. Dissociative amnesia- characterized by loss of memory w/out organic cause

Dissociative Disorders 3. Dissociative fugue - involves flight from home & assumption of a new identity, w/amnesia for past identity & events

Explanations for Dissociative Disorders zPsychoanalytic (unconscious repression) & learning perspectives view these disorders as ways of dealing with anxiety and/or severe abuse

Somatoform disorders Somatoform disorders - this is an apparent physical illness for which there is no organic basis (somato - prefix for body)

Somatoform disorders Types of Somatoform disorders: 1. Conversion disorders - partial paralysis without physical cause (vision, limbs are common) 2. Hypochondria -deluded conviction of having a serious disease, gnawing fear of disease 3.Body dysmorphic - imagined ugliness, preoccupation with image

Somatoform disorders Types of Somatoform disorders: 4.Somatization disorder - characterized by numerous & recurrent physical complaints 5.Pain disorder - pain is more severe or persistent then can be explained by medical causes

Other disorders Psychosomatic = psychophysiological illness yMind-body illness; any stress-related physical illness yExample: ulcers, headaches

Personality Disorders  disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

Personality disorders 3 clusters of personality disorders 1.Anxiety is express in form of fear of rejection; withdraw behavior 2.Eccentric behavior (unconventional, different, imaginative, impulsive), social disengaged 3.Dramatic, impulsive, attention getting, exaggerates, imaginative, unstable emotion, unstable relationships

Personality Disorders 1. Antisocial Personality Disorder (sociopath, psychopath)  disorder in which the person (usually man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members  Manipulative, impulsive, superficial  aggressive, ruthless, or a clever con artist

Other Personality Dis.  Paranoid - unreasonably suspicious of others thoughts or motives  Narcissistic - excessive self-admiration/self- centeredness  Borderline - unstable  Schizoid - socially disengaged

Personality Disorders  PET scans illustrate reduced activation in a murderer’s frontal cortex Normal Murderer

Personality Disorders