Abnormal Psychology Jill M. Hooley | James N.

Butcher
Seventeenth Edition, Global Edition Matthew K. Nock | Susan Mineka

Chapter 8
Somatic Symptom
and Dissociative
Disorders

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 Somatic Symptom and Related
Disorders: An Overview

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 Somatic Symptom and Related
Disorders: An Overview

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 Somatic Symptom and Related
Disorders: An Overview

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 Somatic Symptom Disorder

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 Causes of Somatic Symptom Disorder

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 Figure 8.1 Simplified Model of Somatic Symptom Disorder
People with somatic symptom disorder tend to have a cognitive style that leads them to be
hypersensitive to their bodily sensations. They also experience these sensations as intense, disturbing,
and highly aversive. Another characteristic of such patients is that they tend to think catastrophically
about their symptoms, often overestimating the medical severity of their condition.

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 Treatment of Somatic
Symptom Disorder

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 Illness Anxiety Disorder

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 Henry: Illness Anxiety Disorder

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 Conversion Disorder (Functional
Neurological Symptom Disorder)

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 Range of Conversion Disorder
Symptoms

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 Important Issues in Diagnosing
Conversion Disorder

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 Causes of Conversion Disorders

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 Treatment of Conversion Disorder

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 Factitious Disorder

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 Factitious Disorder

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 Distinguishing Between Different Types
of Somatic Symptom and Related
Disorders

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 Dissociative Disorders:
An Overview

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 Dissociative Disorders:
An Overview

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 Dissociative Disorders:
An Overview

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 Depersonalization/Derealization
Disorder

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 Dissociative Amnesia

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 Sharon: Dissociative Amnesia

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 Sharon: Living with Dissociative
Amnesia

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 Dissociative Identity Disorder

• Dissociative identity disorder (DID)

– Disruption of identity characterized by two or
more distinct identities or personality states
– Recurrent episodes of amnesia
– Self-reported or reported by others

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 Causal Factors and Controversies
about DID

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 Current Perspectives

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 Cultural Factors, Treatments, and
Outcomes in Dissociative Disorders

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 Cultural Factors, Treatments, and
Outcomes in Dissociative Disorders

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 Research close-up: Randomized
Controlled Trial

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 Unresolved Issues

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