Exam 6: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders and Dissociative Disorders

In terms of antidepressant medication treatments for somatic symptom disorder, the most accurate statement based on the research so far is

With regard to the treatment of illness anxiety disorder and somatic symptom disorder, some research supports the use of _.

Illness anxiety disorder exists when

The common feature in almost every case of DID is

With regard to the studies of DID described in your text regarding faking, amnesia, and hypnosis as well as the studies regarding the physiological changes that occur in the different personalities the most accurate statement is

Which of the following statements is TRUE about factitious disorders?

Which of the following statements is FALSEabout dissociative identity disorder?

An alter is

Freud called the reduction in anxiety by converting unconscious conflicts into physical symptoms

Hippocrates and the Egyptians before him thought that hysterical disorders were the result of a .

Although both panic disorder patients and persons with somatic symptom disorder tend to misinterpret bodily sensations, patients with panic disorder

Since Jane has been diagnosed with illness anxiety disorder, we can expect her to see her physician

Vanna, who is 40, apparently believes that she is a 20-year-old woman. Suddenly, she starts to speak and behave very differently, and says she no longer thinks of herself as "Vanna." Instead, she claims to be Elise, a 10-year-old child. It is likely that Vanna has just experienced a .

Paradoxically, an effective treatment for somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder involves helping the patient to focus on

With regard to Freud's explanation of "la belle indifference" (the observation that conversion disorder patients are not concerned about their symptoms), research conducted by Lader and Sartorius (1968) suggests that

In dissociative fugue, the term fugue relates to .

Research suggests that somatic symptom disorder often occurs in families with a strong tendency toward __________.

The disorder that involves physical malfunctioning without any physical cause is called .

Discuss the controversy surrounding false memories.

Goodman et al. (2003) interviewed 175 individuals with documented child abuse histories and found that of the subjects remembered and reported the abuse.