PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Conversion Disorder, Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder, Hypochondriasis
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Dissociative amnesia: the main diagnostic elements in an inability to recall important autobiographical information. Depersonalization: the experience of not experiencing the reality of ones self: this experience can include feeling dethatched or observing ones self as if you were an outside observer. Derealization: the experience that the external world i not solid ones world is experienced with a sense of detachment or as if in a fog or a dream or in other ways distorted and unreal. Dissociative amnesia falls under the same category as dissociative fugue in the dsm-5. Dissociative fugue: a sudden, unexpected travel away from ones home or place of work with an inability to recall ones past. Ie: mans who think they have cancer when they get a wart. Conversion disorders: the situation in which a person shows the signs of a disorder but the disorder does not follow what we know to be the underlying physiology hysteria.
