Abnormal Psychology

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 359 Moreover, a patient’s symptoms may have been unintentionally reinforced by friends and ...

360 CHAPTER 8 Conversion Disorder Conversion disorder involves sensory or motor symptoms that do not correspond to those that ar ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 361 people are present; patients don’t hurt their heads, bite their tongues, or urinate, a ...

362 CHAPTER 8 People with conversion disorder may react in radically different ways to their symptoms and to what they might imp ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 363 et al., 2005). As they note, dissociation can affect not only memory and the sense of ...

364 CHAPTER 8 opposite the affected hand (each hemisphere of the brain controls and registers sensations from the opposite side ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 365 Psychological Factors: Self-Hypnosis? There is no generally accepted explanation for h ...

366 CHAPTER 8 kind of preoccupation with a perceived health problem must cause signifi cant dis- tress or impair the person’s fu ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 367 Fava, Mangelli, & Ruini, 2001). People with panic disorder, phobias, and hypo- cho ...

368 CHAPTER 8 2005). The three types of patients had their brains scanned while they indicated the color of various printed word ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 369 Social Factors: Stress Response As with other somatoform disorders, stressful events c ...

370 CHAPTER 8 Pop star Michael Jackson’s face changed repeat- edly over time, particularly his nose, chin, and cheeks, although ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 371 Table 8.17 • Body Dysmorphic Disorder Facts at a Glance Prevalence Approximately 0.7– ...

372 CHAPTER 8 disorder shares some features with anxiety disorders (see Chapter 7): (1) Like pho- bia disorders (agoraphobia, so ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 373 disorder: Patients never have an opportunity to test their (irrational) beliefs. Throu ...

374 CHAPTER 8 Targeting Neurological Factors Medications such as SSRI or St. John’s wort may be used to treat some anxiety- rela ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 375 Treatment may also focus on the family—educating family members about the disorder and ...

376 CHAPTER 8 Kirmayer, 2002; Maldonado & Spiegel, 2001). For instance, with SD, family members may be asked not to inquire ...

Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders 377 Key Concepts and Facts About Somatoform Disorders Somatoform disorders involve compla ...

378 CHAPTER 8 Follow-up on Anna O. Anna O.’s symptoms do not fit neatly into any of the disorders discussed in this chapter. She ...