PSYCH 3830 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Borderline Personality Disorder, Psychophysiology, Psychosis

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3830
• Professor: Jo Jorgensen

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Psyc 3830 chapter 6 key terms & textbook notes. Somatic symptom disorder: (previously known as somatization disorder); disorder involving extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident. Dissociative disorder: disorder in which individuals feels detached from themselves or their surroundings and reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate. Illness anxiety disorder: somatic symptom disorder (previously known as somatoform disorder) involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause. Conversion disorder: (functional neurological symptom disorder); physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it. Malingering: deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by external gain. Factitious disorder: nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked or no, apparent gain except possibly sympathy and attention. Derealization: situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world.