Major Disorders

Mood Disorders
• Disorders in which individuals experience
swings in their emotional states that are
extreme and prolonged
Mood Disorders
• Depression

• Mania

• Bipolar
Anxiety Disorders
Disorders that take
several different
forms, but which
are all related to a
generalized feeling
of anxiety
Anxiety Disorders
• Panic Attack

• Phobias

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Dissociative Disorders
Disorders in
which there is
a prolonged
loss of memory
or identity
Dissociative Disorders
• Dissociative Amnesia

• Dissociative Fugue

• Dissociative Identity Disorder (AKA- Multiple

Personality Disorder, MPD)
Personality Disorders
A Group of disorders regarded as
long standing, inflexible, and
maladaptive traits that impair social
and occupational functioning, but
not contact with reality
Personality Disorders
• Specific Personality Disorders
– Paranoid
– Schizoid
– Schizotypal
– Borderline
– Histrionic
• Antisocial Personality
Schizophrenia
• Complex disorder that may be categorized
as a cluster of various disorders.
Individuals may experience various
degrees of fragmentation in their live.
Types of Schizophrenia
• Type I • Type II
– Characterized by – Characterized by
positive symptoms negative symptoms
• Delusions • Flat affect
(grandeur,persecution, • Avolition
control) • Alogia
• Hallucinations
• Disorganized thought-
behavior
Somatoform Disorders

Disorders in which individuals have

symptoms typically associated with
physical conditions, but for which no
physiological basis can be found
Somatoform Disorders
• Somatization Disorder

• Hypochondriasis

• Conversion Disorder