1. Abnormal Psychological Disorders
Somatoform, Dissociative, Schizophrenia

2. Somatoform Disorders Classified as two types: Conversion disorder
Person complains about a specific symptom with no apparent cause
Hypochondriasis
Person worries about becoming ill

3. Conversion Disorder
Report the existence of severe physical problems with no biological reason.
Like blindness or paralysis.
Pol Pot

4. Hypochondriasis
Has frequent physical complaints for which medical doctors are unable to locate the cause.
They usually believe that the minor issues (headache, upset stomach) are indicative are more severe illnesses.

5. Dissociative Disorders
Alterations in memory, identity, or consciousness
Dissociative amnesia
Inability to recall personal events (rest of memory intact)
Dissociative fugue
Travels away from home or work & unable to recall past
DID – Dissociative Identity Disorder (United States of Tara)
Formerly Multiple Personality Disorder
Two or more distinct personalities
Rare and controversial

6. Psychogenic Amnesia
A person cannot remember things with no physiological basis for the disruption in memory.
Retrograde Amnesia
NOT organic amnesia.

7. Dissociative Fugue
People with psychogenic amnesia that find themselves in an unfamiliar environment.

8. Dissociative Identity Disorder
Used to be known as Multiple Personality Disorder.
A person has several rather than one integrated personality.
People with DID commonly have a history of childhood abuse or trauma.

9. Schizophrenic Disorders

10. Schizophrenia Individuals can’t distinguish fantasy from reality
Experience disturbances in thinking, emotions, behaviors and perceptions
Confused and disconnected
1% of people worldwide

11. Delusions (false beliefs) can occur as well as hallucinations (perceptions with no external cue)
Speak very quickly
“word salad”
Psychotic Disorder
Much debate over cause
A Beautiful Mind

12. Types of Schizophrenia
Paranoid
Identified by hallucinations and delusions
Catatonic
Individual may sit for hours without moving
May move about wildly
Disorganized
Confused speech
Frequent and vivid hallucinations

13. Disorganized Thinking
The thinking of a person with Schizophrenia is fragmented and bizarre and distorted with false beliefs.
Disorganized thinking comes from a breakdown in selective attention.- they cannot filter out information.

14. Delusions (false beliefs)
Delusions of Grandeur
Delusions of Persecution

15. Disturbed Perceptions
hallucinations- sensory experiences without sensory stimulation.

16. Inappropriate Emotions and Actions
Laugh at inappropriate times.
Flat Effect
Senseless, compulsive acts.
Catatonia- motionless Waxy Flexibility