PSYB32H3 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Notes.docx

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYB32H3
• Professor: Konstantine Zakzanis

Document Summary

Dissociative disorders - individual experiences disruptions of consciousness, memory and identity. Onset of both disorders is assumed by many to be related to some stressful experience and the two classes sometimes co-occur. Somatoform disorders in somatoform disorders, psychological problems take a physical form the physical symptoms have no known physiological explanation and are not under voluntary control they are thought to be linked to psychological factors. Pain disorder - person experiences pain that causes significant distress and impairment; psychological factors are viewed as playing an important role in the onset. Client may be unable to work and may become dependent on painkillers or tranquilizers. Pain may allow the individual to avoid some unpleasant activity and to secure attention and sympathy not otherwise available. Accurate diagnosis is difficult because the subjective experience of pain is always a psychologically influenced phenomenon. Therefore, deciding when a pain becomes a somatoform pain is difficult.