Question 1

What is factitious disorder imposed on self? What is factitious disorder imposed on another? What are some of the costs to a child whose mother has Munchhausen's or factitious syndrome?

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Question 2

What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)? What are its symptoms?

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Question 3

What are some of the issues in diagnosing dissociative identity disorder (DID)? What are some of the reasons for cross-national differences in the diagnosis rates of DID?

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Question 4

What has research from 2018 (Ludwig, et al.)shown about the possible causes of conversion disorder?

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Question 5

What is conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder)? What are some of the common types of conversion symptoms?

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Question 6

What is the goal of the treatment of dissociative identity disorder?

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Question 7

Why is the prognosis of clients with conversion disorder poor?

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Question 8

Imagine yourself as a juror in the following murder case (from Loftus, 1993).The defendant is George Franklin, Sr., 51 years old, standing trial for a murder that occurred more than 20 years earlier.The victim was eight year-old Susan Kay Nason.Franklin's daughter, Eileen, only eight years old herself at the time of the murder, provided the major evidence against her father.Eileen's memory of the murder, however, had re-emerged only recently, after 20 years of being repressed.

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Question 9

What characterizes a dissociative fugue?

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Question 10

Are researchers clear that somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder are distinct disorders?

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Question 11

Briefly discuss the differences between psychogenic and organic amnesia.

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Question 12

Describe dissociative fugue and some of its key characteristics.

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Question 13

How did the psychoanalytic theory interpret conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder)?

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What is dissociative amnesia? What is meant by organic and psychogenic amnesia?

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Quiz 6: Somatic Symptom and Dissociative Disorders