Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders

What is a defining characteristic of hysterical somatoform disorders?

In the conversion symptom known as glove anesthesia, what is the typical manifestation of the numbness?

What percentage of the close female relatives of women with somatization disorder are also reported to develop the disorder?

What is the primary motivation for a person with a factitious disorder to intentionally produce or fake physical symptoms?

In Munchausen syndrome by proxy, also known as factitious disorder by proxy, who is typically the perpetrator inducing illness in a child?

According to research mentioned in the chapter, what percentage of individuals with body dysmorphic disorder may attempt suicide?

According to the psychodynamic perspective, what do hysterical disorders like conversion disorder represent?

In psychodynamic theory, when a soldier develops a conversion paralysis of the arm that prevents him from having to participate in combat, this is an example of what concept?

What does the cognitive view propose is the purpose of converting emotional turmoil into physical symptoms in hysterical disorders?

What types of treatments, which are also applied to obsessive-compulsive disorder, are typically used for preoccupation somatoform disorders like hypochondriasis and body dysmorphic disorder?

Dissociative disorders are defined as major changes in memory that lack what kind of clear cause?

What is the term for the most common type of dissociative amnesia, where a person loses all memory of events occurring within a specific, limited period of time?

In addition to forgetting their personal identities and details of their past, what other key action is characteristic of people experiencing a dissociative fugue?

What is the approximate prevalence of dissociative fugue in the general population?

What is the term for the transition from one subpersonality to another in an individual with dissociative identity disorder?

Compared to men, how much more likely are women to receive a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder?

What is the most common pattern of interaction between subpersonalities in dissociative identity disorder?

On average, what is the reported number of subpersonalities for women and men diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, respectively?

What does the iatrogenic explanation for dissociative identity disorder suggest?

According to the psychodynamic perspective, what is the most basic ego defense mechanism that is believed to cause dissociative disorders?

The concept of state-dependent learning suggests that a person is most likely to remember information under what condition?

Which theory proposes that dissociative disorders might be a form of self-induced trance used to forget unpleasant events?

At what stage of life does a person's hypnotic susceptibility generally reach its peak before starting to decline?

In the treatment of dissociative identity disorder, what is the term for the final merging of two or more subpersonalities into a single, integrated identity?

What is the central symptom that defines depersonalization disorder?

What is the term for the feeling that the external world is unreal and strange, an experience that often accompanies depersonalization?

What fraction of all people report having experienced transient feelings of depersonalization, such as feeling they were watching themselves in a movie?

Somatization disorder, a hysterical pattern involving many long-lasting physical ailments with little or no organic basis, is also known by what name?

What was the most significant change proposed by the DSM-5 task force regarding the diagnosis of dissociative fugue?

Most cases of conversion disorder typically begin between late childhood and young adulthood and last for approximately how long?

What proportion of people with body dysmorphic disorder are estimated to seek plastic surgery or dermatology treatment?

According to the multicultural view, how is the transformation of personal distress into somatic complaints seen in many non-Western cultures?

What are the natural opioid substances in the body that can be triggered by a belief or expectation, contributing to the placebo effect?

What are the three primary goals that therapists typically pursue when treating an individual with dissociative identity disorder?

What is the term for the therapy in which patients are hypnotized and then guided to recall forgotten events or perform other therapeutic activities?

How do somatoform disorders differ from psychophysiological disorders?

According to the behavioral view, what is considered the primary cause for the development of hysterical disorders?

Some clinical theorists argue that dissociative identity disorder is a culture-bound phenomenon. While its prevalence has grown in North America, in what other part of the world is it considered rare or nonexistent?

What are the three leading treatments discussed in the chapter for dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue?

What class of drugs, sometimes referred to as 'truth serums,' is occasionally used to help patients with dissociative amnesia regain lost memories by calming them and freeing their inhibitions?

What is the term from the 'Peculiarities of Memory' section for the strange sensation of recognizing a scene that one is experiencing for the first time?

In Pain Disorder Associated with Psychological Factors, what is identified as the key symptom of the disorder?

What is the estimated prevalence of hypochondriasis in the general population?

The psychodynamic theory of hysterical disorders began with the work of Sigmund Freud, who was influenced by the case of 'Anna O.', a patient treated with hypnosis by which other physician?

When treating hysterical somatoform disorders, which therapeutic approach is suggested to be less helpful than others like suggestion and reinforcement?

What proportion of individuals who confront a life-threatening danger are reported to experience feelings of depersonalization or derealization?

The DSM-5 task force proposed replacing the 'Somatoform Disorders' grouping with what new category that would also include psychophysiological disorders?

Under the proposed changes for DSM-5, in which newly proposed category would body dysmorphic disorder be listed?

To receive a diagnosis of somatization disorder, a person must have a range of ailments that includes several pain symptoms, two gastrointestinal symptoms, one sexual symptom, and what other type of symptom?

During the 1990s, a controversial issue that attracted significant public attention involved reports of adults recovering what type of memories, often during therapy?