Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders

• Somatoform Disorder: occurs when a person manifests a psychological problem through a psychological symptom.
• Hypochondriasis: has frequent physical complaints for which medical doctors are unable to locate the cause.
• Conversion Disorder: report the existence of severe physical problems with no biological reasons. Blindness or paralysis.
• Dissociative Disorders: involves a disruption in the conscious process.
• Psychogenic Amnesia: a person cannot remember things with no physiological basis for the disruption in memory.
• Dissociative Fugue: people with psychogenic amnesia find themselves in an unfamiliar place.
• Dissociative Identity Disorder: used to be known as Multiple Personality Disorder. A person has several rather than one integrated personality. People with DID commonly have a history of childhood abuse or trauma.