Chapter 16 Psychological Disorders

a condition for which there is no apparent physical cause

• somatoform

• anxiety

• schizophrenia

• bipolar

an intense and irrational fear of a particular object or situation

• phobia

• anxiety

• hallucinations

• delusions

maladaptive or inflexible ways of dealing with others and one's environment

• personality disorder

• dissociative disorder

• pervasive developmental disorder

• mood disorder

a vague, generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger

• phobia

• anxiety

• hysteria

• insanity

a disorder in which a person experiences alterations in memory, identity, or consciousness

• dissociative

• antsocial

• schizophrenia

• mood

a group of disorders characterized by confused and disconnected thoughts, emotions, and perceptions

• schizophrenia

• antisocial

• narcissistic

• bipolar

false beliefs that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence

• delusions

• hallucinations

• catatonic

• anxiety

changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function

• conversion

• hypochondriasis

• munchausen's

• catatonia

disorder in which an individual alternates between feelings of mania and depression

• Bipolar

• Schizophrenia

• psychopathy

• autism

perceptions that have no direct external cause

• hallucinations

• flat affect

• delusions

• histrionics