Abnormal Psychology

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 339 Understanding Dissociative Fugue In the following sections we describe the research fi ...

340 CHAPTER 8 overlapped with symptoms of possession trance and of other phenomena in the local culture, such as memory problems ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 341 Neurological Factors As we’ll see in the following sections, studies have addressed ch ...

342 CHAPTER 8 Psychological Factors: Cognitive Defi cits Patients with depersonalization disorder have cognitive defi cits that ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 343 can also lead to further depersonalization or derealization symptoms. Patients then be ...

344 CHAPTER 8 Dissociative identity disorder (DID) The dissociative disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distin ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 345 Criticisms of the DSM-IV-TR Criteria Significant problems plague the DSM-IV-TR diagnos ...

346 CHAPTER 8 P S N electrical activity on the scalp to show that the brain responds as if the patient with DID recognizes previ ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 347 your face in a mirror). These researchers found evidence that genetic infl uences ac- ...

348 CHAPTER 8 Lewis, & Lewis, 1996) and also report having displayed signs of dissociation in childhood (Lewis et al., 1997) ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 349 media, the therapist, and general social expectations (Lilienfeld et al., 1999)? Propo ...

350 CHAPTER 8 When addressing the presence of alters in those with DID, the type of treatment a clinician employs depends on whi ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 351 In addition, hypnosis can be induced only when patients are willing to be hypnotized, ...

352 CHAPTER 8 Somatoform Disorders During the course of her illness, Anna O. developed medical symptoms that her doctors could n ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 353 Somatoform Disorders: An Overview The hallmark of somatoform disorders is complaints a ...

354 CHAPTER 8 Somatization Disorder The hallmark of somatization disorder (SD) is multiple physical symptoms that are medically ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 355 cannot identify a medical cause for the pain; in other cases, a medical cause may unde ...

356 CHAPTER 8 Criticism of the DSM-IV-TR Criteria The DSM-IV-TR criteria for SD have been criticized on several grounds. First, ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 357 the body, and as we shall see, both involve catastrophic thinking about aspects of bod ...

358 CHAPTER 8 Social Factors Social factors that can contribute to SD include signifi cant social stressors, the mod- eling and ...