PSYC 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Gregory P Strauss

Document Summary

Generalized anxiety disorder marked by chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat. Obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges (compulsions) to engage in senseless rituals. Post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event. Concordance rate the percentage of twin pairs or other pairs who exhibit the same disorder. Dissociative disorders class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity. Dissociative amnesia that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting. Dissociative identity disorder (did) disruption of identity marked by the experience of two or more largely complete, and usually very different, personalities. Major depressive disorder a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure. Bipolar disorder marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods. Schizophrenia marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized, thinking and speech, and deterioration of adaptive behavior.