PSYC 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder

• School: American River College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 340
• Professor: Garvey

Document Summary

Physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it. Treatment typically seeks to identify any traumatic or stressful trigger, reduce secondary gain, and enhance insight. Somatoform disorder featuring true pain but for which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity, or maintenance. Prevalence of serious pain in one or more anatomical sites. Pain causes clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning. Psychological factors are judged to play a primary role in the onset, severity, exacerbation, or maintenance of the pain. Pain is not feigned or intentionally produces. Somatoform disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance ( imagined ugliness ) Preoccupation with an imagined defect in appearance or gross exaggeration of a slight physical anomaly. Preoccupation causes significant distress or impairment in functioning. Preoccupation is not better accounted for by another mental disorder.